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...where Kwan was about four years ago. Then Kwan was a ponytailed girl who could not believe people were actually interested in what she had to say. Now she rules the ice. Her skating has a light, effortless quality that transcends the mechanics of the sport and its often rote choreography. She feeds off the power of her music, using the swells and dips of the notes to guide her movements and propel her spins and jumps. "The skating quality she has achieved--her edge, her body line, her flexibility, her musicality--is not by accident," says her choreographer, Lori...
Much of Bott's own unorthodox youth was spent avoiding educational systems that emphasized rote learning. Born in Budapest on September 24, 1923, to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, he lived the first 16 years of his life in the Hungarian part of Slovakia. His parents divorced soon after he was born, but Bott nonetheless led a childhood of affluence, since his new stepfather was a high-ranking manager in a sugar factory...
That formula--dogged preparation for a rote maneuver that is designed to look bold and spontaneous--has worked well for Gore over the years. As a Congressman in the early 1980s, he would lie flat on his back late at night in an empty House gymnasium and hurl the ball at the hoop again and again; when at last he could make the trick shot, he unveiled it in a pickup game with other lawmakers. Representative Gore studied the arms race with the same intensity, working 10 hours a week for a year before championing a simple solution...
Ault says that he does not teach organic chemistry from the angle of rote memorization, but rather as a growing experience...
...disgruntled group of teachers and academics penned a letter to the President contending that the eighth-grade math test isn't tough enough in measuring basic computational skills. On the other side, the Cambridge-based watchdog group FairTest opposes the exams, executive director Laura Barrett says, for focusing on "rote memorization rather than creative problem solving...