The answer was given that children are taught more by rote and less to think for themselves.
Stephen Byers may yet have to learn that 7x8 is 56 and not 54, but that would have to be learned by rote rather than by him thinking for himself.
The rote to success
That training is built on a foundation of learning,
by rote, an enormous amount of information about the human body, about diseases, symptoms and therapies, about tests and diagnostics.
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What this confusion about the Real Presence may indicate is that some, perhaps many, articles of our Catholic faith that we learned
by rote, or at least without careful catechetical instruction, are fragile reeds that bend easily in almost any wind.
What kind of Presence are you expecting?
do exactly what I'm doing and saying as I transmit to you
by rote what I got
by rote from someone who got it from God
by rote."
Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics
Unfortunately, group insurance plans are often sold
by rote. There are very few instances where we run into a plan that is very creative.
Creativity required to control the costs, remain competitive
Shaak's young students learn both how to play pieces
by rote and to read music notation.
"Sharing the bench from the beginning": a Pedagogy Saturday session by Carolyn Shaak
But many teachers taught children
by rote 'behind closed doors', she said.
'Leave tables to chants'
Also, there's a sense that it is done
by rote. People think mistakenly that "it" is important rather than "I'm important because I know how to use my body in these ways." The critical element in teaching the technique is allowing each person to come to terms with her own limitations, to challenge her, but to also fill her with confidence about how she can move with strength and flexibility.
Teacher's wisdom: former Martha Graham dancer Marni Thomas, co-founder of the dance department at the University of California at Berkeley, spoke to writer Ann Murphy at the university's dance studios
But for Christians, particularly in those denominations that still recite the ancient church creeds, the words "suffered under Pontius Pilate" will never again fall trippingly off their tongue or be recited
by rote. What Gibson's Passion does, if nothing else, is to drive home how great was the sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary.
Two opposing world views
Yet other scenes seem to rattle off the greatest hits of Sunday school as if
by rote. McNally may want us to think about the wisdom that suffering brings to oppressed people, but he doesn't show that happening onstage.
Jesus in khakis
One reason given for avoiding memorization was that people should not be made to "learn
by rote" what they could not understand.
Commit your faith to memory
At its best, this made for infectious group energy and a sense of common purpose; at its weakest, it seemed like a language learned
by rote, not yet the flexible instrument with which to create drama and poetry onstage.
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The dancers, whose performances until this point had seemed to be
by rote, finally began to connect emotionally to the movement.
MOISEYEV DANCE COMPANY