Word: rote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groomed Jean and his brother Gaston to be his international salesmen. There was to be no nonsense of a university education for his sons. And in the local Cognac high school, Jean showed little intellectual promise anyway: he had, and still has, a poor memory, and floundered in the rote system of French instruction. At 18, Jean was sent off to Canada to peddle brandy in the raw Canadian boom towns of 1906 such as Calgary, Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat. He was pleasantly surprised by the absence of class barriers and the ingrained suspicions that so characterized the European...
...daughter, badly shocked, survives as a sort of spiritual absentee, her feelings annulled, her values voided. She hardly even seems to know her mother. She cannot even cry. She can only in stunned rote repeat her "disgrace" with the first man she happens to meet. The mother pleads, rages, weeps, despairs. The girl is, as the alienists say, "out of contact." Then comes word that the young intellectual they both loved is dead, killed by the Germans. Sobbing, the two women fall into each other's arms, revived by death, healed with suffering...
What could be more rote drill than Skinner's "one-step-at-a-time teaching, immediately 'reinforcing' each correct response with a grain of corn." What could be more inflexible than this or the sample of a programed high school physics lesson as shown...
...Governor criticized more than Meyer's attitude on the draft; he went on to condemn what he called "Meyer's rote to abolish the Defense Department," and his votes against the Mutual Security Program which, he emphasized, "gives us to impoverished places." Here, gain Stafford misrepresents Meyer's record...
Indians & Doorbells. Hansen has no quarrel with progressive education's contention that problem solving is more interesting than rote learning. But he thinks progressives underestimate the pride that children take in acquiring intellectual skills. Instead of directly teaching the skills necessary to solve problems, progressive schools resort to a kind of subliminal advertising. They start out with "units of experience" built around such hardy fascinators as "the Red Man." After interviewing an imported chief in full headdress, children write Indian themes-supposedly absorbing grammar and spelling along the trail...