To the editor: As an educator, I couldn’t agree more with Doug Lemov that learning and retaining basic facts, and creating a supportive, inclusive environment, are foundational to good pedagogy. What ...

A new study offers older adults a simple way to combat memory loss: memorization. Researchers found that seniors who engaged in an intensive period of rote learning followed by an equally long rest ...

Rote learning avoids comprehension, and hence is regarded as an bad tool in mastering any complex subject at an advanced level but it has its own benefits. Rote learning, colloquially referred to as ...

A question confronts many professors at the start of each semester: Which of their students can grasp a subject’s underlying concepts, and which are simply adept at memorizing? Both kinds of students ...

Forum writer Terence Lee sparked a debate this week with his call to weed out traditional methods of learning, specifically rote learning, in junior colleges. He says that it is outdated in an era ...

The government initiative to reform and revamp the education system in the country is timely and most welcome, provided it paves the way for meaningful change. Past attempts at education reforms have ...

I WAS taken aback when I saw lockstep and rote learning methodologies in English teaching being applied on high school students in Punjab. After completing my MA English, I joined the education sector ...

It may not be the most fun method but rote learning for children will help them become better decision makers in the long run according to one expert. Dr Helen Abadzi, a specialist in cognitive ...

For some time now, many educators in our society have been criticising the dominance of rote learning in our educational system and calling for adopting teaching/learning methods that are more ...

“Show me all the possible ways in which four friends, who go to a movie theater, can sit together in a row.”Harvard professor Eleanor Duckworth asked this simple question that stumped me fifteen years ...