Word: rote
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...foreigners - and, indeed, a fair number of Chinese - believe that the obsession (and that's the right word) with education in China is overdone. The system stresses rote memorization. It drives kids crazy - aren't 7-year-olds supposed to have fun on Saturday afternoons? - and doesn't necessarily prepare them, economically speaking, for the job market or, emotionally speaking, for adulthood. Add to that the fact that the system, while incredibly competitive, has become corrupt...
...doctor, whom I love and have a lot of respect for, kept saying the same things," Cohn says. He would ask what on earth she had been feeding her daughter and suggest that Molly needed to exercise more and eat less. The Cohns never found that rote advice specific enough to be useful. (Read Laura Blue's Wellness blog on TIME.com...
...Nevertheless, this system is incredibly effective for what it intends: producing some of the smartest and most hardworking students of any country in the world, many of whom later seek appointment at elite universities (including Harvard) in math and the sciences. But at its core, Indian education praises by-rote learning, conformity, and standardization. It is an assembly-line approach in an industrializing country to produce not only goods, but its human investments as well. The most popular fields are the pigeonhole ones—with outsourced jobs waiting at the end, positions lacking creativity and advancement but with...
...work may determine the fate of Taiwan's economy. "The old model is a top-down approach," says ITRI president Johnsee Lee. "The innovation economy has to be more bottom-up. It needs more talent." Morris Chang says Taiwan lacks that talent, because the country's education system stresses rote learning, resulting in "very little independent thinking and very little creativity." Chang also points out that Taiwan has to contend with a greatly changed international environment. "China wasn't in the picture 30 years ago, neither was India," Chang says. "You have a big competitor that can do the basic...
...Chinese basketball needs all the help it can get. Talented players like Yao or the New Jersey Nets' Yi Jianlian tend to go abroad at the first opportunity. Games back in the Chinese Basketball Association league are uninspiring, hampered by poor coaching and a system focused more on rote drills than innovative play. Street play has picked up in recent years in Beijing and Shanghai, but that has yet to translate into a flood of dynamic national players. Despite its home-court advantage in Beijing last year, the Chinese Olympic hoops team made it only to the quarterfinal round before...