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• n  memorization by repetition

• For most of the show, Ceca stood rooted to one spot, ending almost every song with the rote recitation: "Thanks very much.
• Edwards, for example, has moved its rote assembly work building electronic monitoring machines to such lower-wage and -tax locales as Puerto Rico.
• Rather, it appears private schools do more to develop students' critical-thinking abilities not just the rote memorization required to do well on achievement tests.

• rote learning

News & Articles

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• Horst Antes' first major one-man exhibition of paintings in nearly two decades opens at Martin-Gropius-Bau
  Horst Antes, Rote Scheibe, 1969. 60 x 70 cm. Sammlung Großhaus, Schleswig© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2013. BERLIN .- Horst Antes is one of the most internationally significant figurative artists of recent decades. Like few other German artists he has contributed to the global artistic debate.
  June 16, 2013 - Art Daily
• Citi Bike Fans Are Getting Worried About "Glitchy Bike" Problems
  Even the truest Citi Bike believers are beginning to lose their patience with the program's technical difficulties. Repeated assertions from DOT that widely-reported glitches are "initial kinks" are beginning to sound like the same rote assurances issued by flight attendants when the plane is clearly headed down. WNYC reported yesterday that roughly 10 percent of the stations are out of ...
  June 12, 2013 - Gothamist

Quotes

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• Whoopi Goldberg in Reuters
  I did retire. I hadn't made a movie in quite a while, and I lost my way with the things I was doing. It became entertainment by rote, and there wasn't a lot being done that I was interested in doing,Goldberg told Reuters in a telephone...
• David Petraeus in Washington Post
  You certainly can't take lessons learned in Iraq and just apply them in a rote manner in Afghanistan,Petraeus explained.
• Jon Stewart in New York Times
  I feel like we reoriented to the core of the show instead of doing things by rote,Mr. Stewart said. "You almost create these ruts and you need them to plow through, but they can become sort of stultifying."