Word: rote
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...system will need more than a smattering of foreign influences if it hopes to maintain its vitality. While educators the world over seem to agree that the Japanese system is superior up through high school, Japanese universities have failed to achieve the same recognition. Japan's academic emphasis on rote learning fails to encourage the sort of innovative thinking that will be crucial to its high-tech future...
...teaching rote material like foreign
...Hung says he finds the Western style of teaching to be very different from the learning by rote method of China. He explains, "The Chinese education is taking notes. You listen, you take notes, you memorize. Here each person contributes. People raise questions; they argue...
Quad residents are smarter than other students: Of course they are. It takes immense skill and rote memorization to decipher the ever-increasingly complicated schedule for the shuttle that transports Quadlings from their rooms to their classes on time...
...SEEN the future of American higher education, and it is something called "competency-based learning." In the bad old days, switch-wielding professors demanded rote memorization of facts and the ideas of others. But to meet the challenges of a new era, Bok writes, a "critical mind, free of dogma, may be the most important product of education...