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Rote learning is a learning technique which avoids understanding the inner complexities and inferences of the subject that is being learned and instead focuses on memorizing the material so that it can be recalled by the learner exactly the way it was read or heard. In other words, it is learning "just for the test". Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Rote learning. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... In psychology, memory is the ability of an organism to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. ...

The major practice involved in rote learning techniques is learning by repetition, based on the idea that one will be able to recall the meaning of the material the more they repeat it. However, in many fields, especially mathematics and related disciplines, this can often produce poor results. Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, known today as the father of geometry; shown here in a detail of The School of Athens by Raphael. ...

Rote learning is sometimes disparaged with the derogative terms parrot fashion, regurgitation or mugging because one who engages in rote learning may give the wrong impression of having understood what they have written or said. However, with some material rote learning is the only way to learn it in a timely manner. For example, when learning the Latin alphabet, the vocabulary of a foreign language or the conjugation of foreign irregular verbs, since they have no inner structure or their inner complexity is too subtle to be learned explicitly in a short time. (Native speakers and speakers with a lot of experience usually get an intuitive grasp of those subtle rules and are able to conjugate even irregular verbs that they have never heard before.) Rote learning can be risky because institutions, systems and people have a tendency to fixate on its benefits. The system is widely practiced in schools across India, Pakistan, China, Singapore, Japan, Romania and Greece. In the United Nations Arab human development report for 2004 the (Arabic) researchers claim that rote learning is a major contributing factor to the lack of progress in science and research & development in the Arab countries. The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... A vocabulary is a set of words known to a person or other entity, or that are part of a specific language. ... A foreign language is a language not spoken by the indigenous people of a certain place: for example, English is a foreign language in Japan. ... In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (regular alteration according to rules of grammar). ... In contrast to regular verbs, irregular verbs are those verbs that fall outside the standard patterns of conjugation in the languages in which they occur. ... First language (native language, mother tongue, or vernacular) is the language a person learns first. ... The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity. ... The Arab Human Development Report is published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). ...

The Hasidic religious schools called a Chaider use this approach when learning the Bible. It is used in various degrees, and more so at a younger age, which the sole purpose of learning then is to prep him for the future. The children must learn two languages, Hebrew and Aramaic, and learn techniques and the rationale used in those teachings. The word Hebrew most likely means to cross over, referring to the Semitic people crossing over the Euphrates River. ... Aramaic is a Semitic language with a four-thousand year history. ...

This term can also refer to learning music by ear, a practice used with those who cannot (yet) read musical notation. However, many music teachers make a clear distinction between the two approaches. Specialised forms of rote learning have also been used in Vedic chanting to preserve the intonation and lexical accuracy of texts by oral tradition. Learning music by ear is done by repeatedly listening to other musicians and then attempting to recreate what one hears. ... The oral tradition of the Vedas (Åšrauta) consists of several pathas, recitations or ways of chanting the Vedic mantras. ... Oral tradition or oral culture is a way of transmitting history, literature or law from one generation to the next in a civilization without a writing system. ...

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1. Teaching From the Balance Point by Edward Kreitman