Rote
noun
Learning or memorizing something by repetition, often without understanding it fully.
She learned the multiplication tables by rote.
Often appears as...
- rote learning
- learn by rote
adjective
Done mechanically and repetitively, without thought, understanding, or passion.
His response to the question was rote and uninspired.
Often appears as...
- rote repetition
- rote learning
noun
Learning or memorizing something by repetition, often without understanding it fully.
She learned the multiplication tables by rote.
Often appears as...
- rote learning
- learn by rote
adjective
Done mechanically and repetitively, without thought, understanding, or passion.
His response to the question was rote and uninspired.
Often appears as...
- rote repetition
- rote learning
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotionless Learning
Using 'rote' implies that the learning process involves no emotion or passion, just memorization.
Memorizing vocabulary by rote can be effective, but it might not be enjoyable.
Pro Tip 2/3Lacks Deep Understanding
'Rote' suggests memorization without fully understanding the topic or subject matter.
He learned the poem by rote for the competition, but couldn’t explain its meaning.
Pro Tip 3/3Repetition Focus
Emphasizes repetition as the main strategy for learning something when using 'rote'.
Languages are often taught by rote, with students repeating phrases multiple times.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotionless Learning
Using 'rote' implies that the learning process involves no emotion or passion, just memorization.
Memorizing vocabulary by rote can be effective, but it might not be enjoyable.
Pro Tip 2/3Lacks Deep Understanding
'Rote' suggests memorization without fully understanding the topic or subject matter.
He learned the poem by rote for the competition, but couldn’t explain its meaning.
Pro Tip 3/3Repetition Focus
Emphasizes repetition as the main strategy for learning something when using 'rote'.
Languages are often taught by rote, with students repeating phrases multiple times.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotionless Learning
Using 'rote' implies that the learning process involves no emotion or passion, just memorization.
Memorizing vocabulary by rote can be effective, but it might not be enjoyable.
Pro Tip 2/3Lacks Deep Understanding
'Rote' suggests memorization without fully understanding the topic or subject matter.
He learned the poem by rote for the competition, but couldn’t explain its meaning.
Pro Tip 3/3Repetition Focus
Emphasizes repetition as the main strategy for learning something when using 'rote'.
Languages are often taught by rote, with students repeating phrases multiple times.
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Why elephants never...
It is the hippocampus, strongly associated with emotion, that aids recollection by encoding important experiences into long-term memories. The ability to distinguish this importance makes elephant memory a complex and adaptable faculty beyond rote memorization.
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How can education foster...
still teaching students to learn by rote this is a legacy of our colonial era which focused on training people to follow directions students are not encouraged to explore to question the status quo they're not encouraged to
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It's time to reclaim...
it is suffering from a second pernicious trend, what I call religious routine-ism. This is when our institutions and our leaders are stuck in a paradigm that is rote and perfunctory, devoid of life, devoid of vision
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The Two Einsteins:...
but they were really helpful. --blind regurgitation and rote memorization is not an education. GEOFFREY Well, I noticed in the very early footage in the teenage years, he was very rebellious
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Why elephants never...
It is the hippocampus, strongly associated with emotion, that aids recollection by encoding important experiences into long-term memories. The ability to distinguish this importance makes elephant memory a complex and adaptable faculty beyond rote memorization.
Video examples
How can education foster...
still teaching students to learn by rote this is a legacy of our colonial era which focused on training people to follow directions students are not encouraged to explore to question the status quo they're not encouraged to
Video examples
It's time to reclaim...
it is suffering from a second pernicious trend, what I call religious routine-ism. This is when our institutions and our leaders are stuck in a paradigm that is rote and perfunctory, devoid of life, devoid of vision
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The Two Einsteins:...
but they were really helpful. --blind regurgitation and rote memorization is not an education. GEOFFREY Well, I noticed in the very early footage in the teenage years, he was very rebellious
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Iyanla Vanzant
American Author
I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.
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Saint Teresa of Avila
Spanish Saint
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
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Sugata Mitra
Indian Educator
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
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Clarissa Pinkola Estes
American Poet
The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the rote learning of a grammatical rule or mathematical concept. But the habits of mind art cultivates are important.
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Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
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Martin Farquhar Tupper
English Writer
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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Sal Khan
American Educator
Sometimes I think people confuse rote learning with traditional conceptual instruction.
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Laurence Sterne
Irish Novelist
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
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Iyanla Vanzant
American Author
I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.
Quote examples
Saint Teresa of Avila
Spanish Saint
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
Quote examples
Sugata Mitra
Indian Educator
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
Quote examples
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
American Poet
The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.
Quote examples
P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
Quote examples
Michelle Dean
American Journalist
We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the rote learning of a grammatical rule or mathematical concept. But the habits of mind art cultivates are important.
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Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
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Martin Farquhar Tupper
English Writer
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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Sal Khan
American Educator
Sometimes I think people confuse rote learning with traditional conceptual instruction.
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Laurence Sterne
Irish Novelist
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
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