Word: rote
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...content. He defines science as "an understanding of the behavior of nature," and provides numerous examples of how that understanding is thwarted. As a guest lecturer in Rio de Janeiro, he discovered that nearly all his students could parrot their lessons but could not explain what they meant. The rote method was obviously an unscientific way of teaching science. Years later, as a member of a California state board of education curriculum committee, Feynman was appalled by the quality of math textbooks he was asked to review. His expert opinion: "Everything was written by somebody who didn't know what...
...indications about how they would handle the vital foreign policy and defense issues that the nation will face in the next four years, but they did so only sporadically and, it sometimes seemed, unintentionally. The debate, like the entire campaign, encouraged generalizations, evasions, safe (as opposed to responsive) answers, rote excerpts from stump speeches and, too often, cheap shots. The candidates concentrated on scoring points off each other, where possible aiming backward, at the past...
...Kenneth Mortimer, Penn State professor of higher education, has little patience with colleges that would blame their shortcomings on the failure of high schools to prepare entering students. "Part of the problem," insists the report, "is what happens to students after they matriculate in college." Freshmen are herded into rote lecture courses that turn them off. Some 41% of faculty members teach only part time. The report adds that colleges "cannot condone a professor's shortchanging the students ... in favor of outside activities and expect students to focus their primary commitments on learning...
More than that, though, the talented Taylor--who makes penalty shots by rote--probably knew a score would bring back the confidence that was Pew's trademark before the lacrosse accident that injured her knee...
...should be re-evaluated in the light of the current realities in science, social science and the humanities. The information, understanding, and concepts of the revolution in biology which has occurred since World War II, should be incorporated into the curricula so that wherever possible basic concepts can displace rote memory. The potential here is overwhelming, yet in almost 40 years, the impact on medical teaching has been minimal...