Word: rote
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bubbling fluency to Coghill's boldness in sacrificing words and word orders to rhythm and clarity. This is evident in the famed opening lines (usually as much as anyone remembers of the Tales)-Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote-which Coghill deftly turns thus: When the sweet showers, of April fall and shoot/ Down through the drought of March to pierce the root...
...includes tests on number facility, inductive reasoning with number material, spatial relations, non-verbal reasoning, verbal logic, rote memory, verbal fluency and mechanical reasoning. Each student is given a score for each one of the 21 aptitudes...
...disciples study Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, and learn the scriptures almost by rote. They interest people in the Center and in Feeney, sell the priest's books, distribute his new periodical, "The Catholic Observer," and carry on a hate campaign with an intensity born of real conviction...
...came to pass. During the war years Harvard men gradually got used to seeing girls in their classes; their minds were elsewhere. They were annoyed by what they believed the girls' academic methods to be, and still are slightly. They believed Radcliffe girls learned everything by rote, spewed it forth at exams, and got A's Or, rote learning failing, they would slide up to an instructor, display a little...
...prevailing education, he held, was "glutted with words," crammed with names and numbers learned by rote, whether children understood what they meant or not. "There are two ways of instructing," Pestalozzi said. "Either we go from words to things, or from things to words." Pestalozzi started with things...