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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 ...

Ground school is overwhelming, and rote memory puts off a lot of learners. Here's how to encourage students throughout the ...

In today’s educational and leadership arenas, a dangerous narrative has emerged: Self-styled “enlightened” educators disparage rote memorization as obsolete, championing critical thinking alone. Yet ...

A RECENT PIECE in Newsweek prompts an editor to reflect on that subversive phrase “rote memorization.” Reporter Paul Mooney uses the term–correctly, for once–in his story on the revival of Confucian ...

An erudite reader, former Foreign Service officer Jack Aubert of Falls Church, Va., objected to a prominent feature of modern education. “Rote memorization is very useful, and it was a mistake to ...

An erudite reader, former Foreign Service officer Jack Aubert of Falls Church, Virginia, objected to a prominent feature of modern education. “Rote memorization is very useful, and it was a mistake to ...

The bards of Ancient Greece used rote memorization to recall epic poems of thousands of lines in length. What makes the modern literature professors who resent memorization think that they know better ...

Here’s a hypothesis: Perhaps one factor in Volodymyr Zelensky’s skill as a wartime political leader is his training as an actor, which developed his ability to rally followers, evoke empathy, and ...

CHICAGO -- 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 ...