Iyanla Vanzant

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.

American Author

Saint Teresa of Avila

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.

Spanish Saint

Sugata Mitra

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.

Indian Educator

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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.

American Poet

P. J. O'Rourke

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.

American Comedian

Michelle Dean

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.

American Journalist

Richard P. Feynman

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!

American Physicist

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

English Writer

Sal Khan

Sometimes I think people confuse rote learning with traditional conceptual instruction.

American Educator

Laurence Sterne

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Irish Novelist

Using 'rote' implies that the learning process involves no emotion or passion, just memorization.

Emotionless Learning

'Rote' suggests memorization without fully understanding the topic or subject matter.

Lacks Deep Understanding

Emphasizes repetition as the main strategy for learning something when using 'rote'.

Repetition Focus

'Rote' as an adjective conveys doing something automatically, without involvement or interest.

Lack of Engagement

Describes an action that's performed the same way every time, without creativity or variation.

No Creativity

Indicates responses given without thought, as if running on autopilot.

Automatic Responses

 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.

Why elephants never...

 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

How can education foster...

 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

It's time to reclaim...

 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