Word: rote
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second revolution in biology occurred; far-reaching advances were made in the understanding of the genetic nature of the cell (RNA), and other areas. American medical education, having forgotten Flexner's main concept, continues to implement his example; and students continue to learn scientific knowledge by rote memory, instead of the fundamental concepts that doctors need to know...
offering too many lectures and not enough tutorials and discussions that allow students to think analytically, rather than simply mimic rote facts...
This trip down the memory lane of neo-classical economics has several elements. First Bauer writes, the rote of government in economic hie must be reduced. Prosperity will be created by the free enterprise system, "in which firms and individuals largely determine what is produced and consumed." Bauer also promotes the ideal of comparative advantage, the concept that nations should produce what they can make most cheaply. For most poor nations this means exporting raw materials and agricultural products. Bauer deems the idea of Third World industrialization inefficient and declares that it is "more likely to retard economic development than...
Hart used to complain about reporters' rote descriptions of him as "cool and aloof." But amid the evening hush, as his 727 headed for Washington, he confessed that he is uneasy with street campaigning. He manages the jolly handshaking and baby kissing. But he is ambivalent, at least, about the surging excitement of the crowds, the yearning he sees in hundreds of anonymous faces every day. "Those people are obviously looking for somebody to believe in, someone they can trust." That palpable emotional investment, Hart says, is awesome, even frightening. No matter who the candidate, he says, the crowds...
...public obviously wants candidates put through their paces rather than carried into office, but it is a hardening process without any real rules. So candidates develop rote answers to predictable questions, and interviewers try to knock them off balance. These impromptu answers become the real television discussion of the issues instead of the candidate's full speech that is never heard...