Rote Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America. — Amy Chua
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in… — Chuck Thompson
I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. — Sylvia Plath
I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful. — Benedict Cumberbatch
Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well,… — William Hazlitt
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. — Laurence Sterne
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… — Iyanla Vanzant
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like… — Robert Bringhurst
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way â€” by rote or something. Their… — Richard P. Feynman
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our… — George Eliot
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly… — David Foster Wallace
I am afraid of getting older â€¦ I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayâ€”spare me from the relentless… — Sylvia Plath
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing… — Frank Herbert
The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy everyone is happier… — Robert M. Pirsig
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.… — Sugata Mitra
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… — P.J. O'Rourke
Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with… — Tony Buzan
Proud of his learning (just enough to quote), He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory: With memory excellent to get by rote, With wit to hatch… — Lord Byron
Kya hoon main aur kya samajhte hai, Sab raaz nahi hote batane wale, Kabhi tanhaiyo mein aakar dekhna, Kaise rote hai sabko hasane wale. — Vikesh Pandey

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