Rote learning is simply learning through repetition. It’s fast, familiar, and for decades, it has worked well in Singapore’s exam-driven system. As Glenn explains: ...

Teaching children maths by making them learn times tables by rote could worsen exam results because they risk failing to properly understand the subject, according to an Oxford University study.

Rote learning is “strongly discouraged” in programs that train teachers in Canada. For example, it is no longer a standard practice to have children memorize multiplication tables.

Learning the times table by rote and the complexities of grammar will make a return to the primary school classroom as part of a shake-up of the NSW curriculum.

As a high-school math teacher who once worked at Kumon, I must say that Margaret Wente's glowing account of Kumon (column -- Aug. 14) is not compatible with my experience as a tutor there.

The persistence of rote learning, rigid curricula, and one-size-fits-all teaching methods stands in stark contrast to the dynamic, personalised approaches being adopted in fields like healthcare ...

Our classrooms are still full of the drilling and “rote learning” described in the 1854 novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens, where Mr Gradgrind wants the “little pitchers” to be “filled ...

Education Not ‘rote’ learning but focus on two principles that produces skilled, creative Chinese students Research shows that common perceptions of Chinese and other Asian learners are wrong ...

Education After a century of dogmatic rote learning, it’s time to bring in 21st-century education Opinion: Many clearly intelligent students do not excel in our rigid education system Expand ...