Word: rote
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theory of a "new pathway," in which an analytical problem-solving approach replaces an emphasis on rote memorization, has received nationwide accolades and has fundamentally changed medical education across the country, colleagues...
...Tosteson introduced The New Pathway to a limited number of HMS first- and second-year students, hoping to lead medical education away from rote memorization and toward analytical problem-solving, the press release said...
...Chicago and to have lived in or around Berkeley and Salt Lake City, Utah, all places where Ted had spent time. When the manifesto was published a few months later, David thought he could hear his brother in its philosophy and language. It wasn't just the rote denunciations of technology, a sentiment familiar to anyone who ever cursed a computer. Ted and the Unabomber shared certain turns of phrase. For example, "Eat your cake and have it too." Most people say it the other way around...
Competition in Japan has always been fierce, and the schools have always demanded conformity and intense rote learning. But the system has become an extreme, decadent version of what it used to be. And not only do children suffer on account of the schools and cram courses, but they may not even be learning what they ought to. Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the main opposition party, argues that the educational system is at the heart of Japan's difficulties because it simply forces children to memorize and solve math problems. That may have been sufficient when Japan needed nothing...
...Forbes, the novelty of campaigning has worn off. Repetition is all. These days he doesn't give interviews; he endures them. A few months ago, he was the happy warrior on the trail; now he's a grim one, the flat-tax Terminator who repeats his lines by rote and marches relentlessly from event to event. While he has proved he has the fortitude for the race, some of the twinkle has gone out from behind those thick glasses...