Word: rote
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Science instruction at Harvard certainly emphasizes understanding over rote learning as evidenced by the importance of problem sets and the prevalence of open book examinations. Science at the college level is abstract by nature rather than design because the goal of science is to explain concrete observations by universal principles. Science is elitist only in that it rewards results. Furthermore, the ugly corollary is that increased participation by historically under-represented groups can only be achieved by watering down science education...
...plan will focus on ability to lead and manage more than on rote learning that produces top people on exams," said Reeves. "Exams do not leave police managers and leaders...
...fresh and innovative approaches, a place where research is applied with dramatic effect. The days of too much control, overstructured hours and too many "punish mechanisms" -- difficult children forced to take naps -- are going. The old "teacher-directed" activities are also on their way out. So are elements of rote learning: reciting the alphabet and learning the early stages of reading through memorization...
Tosteson has also said that he wants to make the New Pathway curriculum, begun several years ago under his tenure as dean, a top priority. The program is designed to educate students in small tutorials, emphasizing patient-doctor relationships and ethical issues, rather than rote memorization of huge volumes of medical facts...
Implemented under the supervision of Med School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '44, the New Pathway emphasizes small group tutorials over large lectures, less rote memorization of medical facts and more discussion of case studies...