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Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them. -- Nicholas Negroponte
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. -- Laurence Sterne
I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized. -- Esperanza Spalding
I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization. -- Scott Aukerman
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! -- Richard P. Feynman
Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was more interesting to me than a kind of contained, rote superhero franchise. -- Joss Whedon
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, but too often by rote. -- William Hazlitt
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 imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it. -- Tony Buzan
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I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents over facts, and I used to watch on in mute astonishment. How could anyone actually argue about something that could be looked up? -- Susan Orlean
We joined a Conservative synagogue. I began learning through engagement, rote and reading. Suddenly, I belonged... well, to the extent that a novelist can ever feel she is part of a group; we may be part of a minyan, but we're not fully merged into the community. -- Susan Isaacs
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. -- Sugata Mitra
I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote. -- Alan Shepard
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. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
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. -- Iyanla Vanzant
When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor. -- Ben Feldman
In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes. -- Bruce Lee
You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule. -- Thomas Otway
Simple rules guide innovative, intelligent responses. Comprehensive rules guide rote, routine responses. -- Jim Highsmith
Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America. -- Amy Chua
New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote. -- Sara Genn
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. -- James Russell Lowell
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
To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. -- Susan Sontag
The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs. -- David Guterson
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 nerves. -- George Eliot
Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference. -- Bill Gates
Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote. -- Cillian Murphy
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign. -- William Cowper
A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote... -- Lord Byron
There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform. -- John Elder Robison
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My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating. -- Charlemagne Palestine
I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative. -- Twyla Tharp
To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all. -- John Lancaster Spalding

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