Word: rote
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Died. Dr. Max Beberman, 45, originator of the still controversial "new math"; of heart disease; in London. Beberman revised the conventional mathematics curriculum for an experimental high school in Urbana, Ill., in the early 1950s on the premise that learning by rote bores children. His techniques encouraged students to discover basic mathematical principles on their own initiative, and though some remain skeptical, the new math is coming into increasing use throughout...
...that shows a little black girl exclaiming "It's your birthday! I'm just tickled black." Expressions of pride are a good thing when they are genuine, say black Psychiatrists Alvin Poussaint of Harvard and James Comer of Yale. But, they caution in the current Redbook, rote teaching of black-dignity slogans may foster not pride but self-hatred...
Many children raised in religious families learn prayers so totally by rote that sometimes, even in middle age, they find the words still crossing their minds en bloc, a memory that bypasses understanding on the way to the tongue. So it is with certain secular incantations, including the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Some of the young are beginning to examine its wording; one phrase has troubled them. Recently, the senior class president of the Eastchester, N.Y., Senior High School, along with other students and the school's principal, organized a petition campaign to have the formula changed...
...this was mere rote learning. To develop an understanding of syntax. Premack introduced a new symbol representing the preposition on. Given two familiar color symbols representing green and blue, for instance, and by watching the trainer place the green on the blue and vice versa. Sarah eventually came to understand the preposition's purpose. This was one of her first sentences, condensed to a three-symbol command: Green goes on red. Before long, Sarah knew how to obey commands in as many as twelve possible color combinations at an impressive accuracy rate...
...entirely clear just what, outside of a panacea, Creative Psychology is. It has its roots in various mystic and Eastern traditions, borrowing heavily from Zen revelation, Taoist unity. transcendental meditation, and yoga. Except for some very perfunctory exercise manuals in the appendices. DeRopp remains purposively vague. Pat and rote formulations, he implies, are the property of false messiahs: the liberation of individual psyches is as unique and conditional as individual neuroses. ?s typology of three physical kinds of people and their corresponding temperaments-complete with a point system to quantify mixtures offers some surprisingly sensitive insights on the reader...