Word: rote
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...this latter sense indeed, that it is encouraged by the present system of entrance examinations, and it is in this sense that the word "pate-stuffing" has been applied. Scholarship, it is true, can not be sacrificed to "culture," but neither should it be sacrificed to rote-learning...
...made his debut in Budapest as Romeo, was for ten years a matinee idol. Because of political troubles he left Hungary in 1921, went to Manhattan where he produced, directed and acted in his native tongue. His first English part, in The Red Poppy in 1925, he learned by rote without knowing what the words meant...
...action all takes place in twenty-four hours in the Austrian Tyrol, with most of it transpiring in the Rote Hirsh or Reed Deer Inn presided over by a handsome young man. To the Hotel, on her holiday, comes an English school teacher whose life has been atrofied by a lifetime of teaching. The romance between the two lasts only for a day and a night; but during that time there comes for the girl an emotional awakening, a balcony scene taken right from "Romeo and Juliet", tragedy in the discovery of her lover's status as a husband...
...that a student is not a vessel into which refined and clarified wisdom may be poured. Rather, a great deal of refining and clarifying must be done in the student's own mind. We have discovered that education is not passive but active; that a lesson learned by rote is a lesson forgot. Methods of education of the older generation were undesirable, not only because they were passive, but also because they proved themselves impracticable with the advent of mass education. Lectures grew more formal, great numbers of text books were written from the lectures, and teachers of younger grades...
...nearby cage was Editor Werner Hirsch of the Communist Rote Fahne (daily...