For many Singaporean parents, “studying hard” still means doing tons of past-year papers, memorising formulas, and drilling questions repeatedly. After all, that’s how most of us survived the national ...

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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has called for a shift from rote memorisation to holistic education in India, focusing on critical thinking, creativity, and real-world application ...

The Opinion Pages Products of Rote Learning Leon Botstein, music director and conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, is the president of Bard College.

Results from the Chinese university entrance exam, the Gaokao, were released last week. For students, it’s the long culmination of years focusing on tests and learning by rote. Again and again ...

I will take issue with the interchangeable use of “rote memorization” and “learning by heart,” though. Consider the experience of, say, learning to play a Chopin étude.