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...studies lend a neurological basis to what cognitive science has known for the past 100 years-that it is more effective to master a new skill by relating it to your knowledge as a whole than by rote repetition...
Service leaders urged attendees to look beyond the rote recitation in ancient prayer books and to search for spiritual significance in their own lives...
Mindless, sadistic violence juxtaposed with rote sentimentality: this is how Hollywood has finally solved the family-values conundrum, the question of how to entertain the blood- and sex-starved masses and be morally proactive at the same time. Well, dig this: Explosions are cool, and so are intact families! That's the message promulgated by Lethal Weapon 4, in which the above-mentioned scene takes place. As Mel Gibson's character comes to terms with impending fatherhood and Danny Glover's with impending grandfatherhood, the film wends its curious way, alternating crashes and neck breakings with scenes of limp domestic...
DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION (1916) John Dewey's argument that an evolving democracy required a new way of teaching its future citizens became one of the most influential and controversial theories of the century. Out with old methods of rote learning; in with practical problem solving and learning by doing. The classroom debate continues...
...Expressions group hath danced to the rote...