Sentences with phrase «all by rote»

They keep doing the same things and walking the same path, often by rote, only to end up in the same place they started.

On one hand, going too far to the rules - based side will lead to an organization that is too rigid, with employees often doing things by rote that no longer make sense.

It is the willing cessation of rational inquiry so that one can be comforted by rote answers to difficult questiosn.

Many religious people I have talked to don't even know much about their faith, only what they are taught by rote.

When I try to help my grandkids with their homework I try to make it as plain as possible — unless I want them to engage their brains and think, and I'm more interested in them learning to think than in learning «correct» answers by rote.

Generations of Catholics, including priests, learned [scholasticism] almost by rote, often ending with a set of abstract propositions which they could not easily relate to the world or to history.

Learning by rote is no more useful in Bible study than in other fields, and it is often the Bible's anomalous, even contradictory texts that lead us to deeper thought and strong faith.

But were St Thomas Aquinas alive today he would not be teaching by rote from a textbook first published in the 13th century.

There were countless generations which knew by rote, word for word, the story of Abraham — how many were made sleepless by it?

Generations of Catholics, including priests, learned it almost by rote, often ending with a set of abstract propositions which they could not easily relate to the world or to history.

This people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote.

When topics like this are studied by rote without motivation, they have little effect on students.

Amazing how when I needed answers for the deep questions of life I had two choices to make them with: Follow (by rote) what the Bible said or remember what is the true spirit of who Jesus is and how he would react to an issue or problem.

But too often, focus on the God - triune gives way to the trite and sacred rites are replaced by the rote.

We do not say it by rote in services of worship as we do the Lord's Prayer.

For so long I have been making cookies by rote, with a little tweaking here and there to shake things up.

To get over the initial mental block of trying something new because it was either going to take too long or it was just easier to cook what I already knew by rote, I devised a little game.

There is no body of information that my kids have to learn by rote, sectioned off by age to be tested on.

I wanted them to have exposure to all kinds of stimulus and to be able to follow their interests rather than learning by rote.

Cameron, ever the man of the people, appeared at a press conference the next day with an answer he seemed to have learned by rote.

Learning by rote or by play?

We remember our telephone numbers and the multiplication table by rote; the process is cognitive and without feeling.

Birds, although they often have relatively large brains, are commonly thought to carry out tasks by rote.

The system was still able to follow instructions for that room despite not having seen them before, says Kaplan, which suggests it is not just learning by rote.

'' «I'm so sorry,» I said, adding — almost by rote — «I hope C. difficile is on the list.»

Beginning with counting and moving through topics such as multiplication and fractions, Arithmetic provides a nuanced understanding of working with numbers, gently connecting procedures that we once learned by rote with intuitions long since muddled by education.

School children learning by rote do so in a collective singsong.

Nothing he said was by rote or offhand, and although I knew he had said many of these things before, he delivered his narrative so vibrantly I might have thought I was hearing him recount his feats for the first time.

Sheba the mathematical chimp, for example, may not have been adding, but merely memorizing by rote.

«It was all by rote.

She's not terrified, she's not even much interested by the familiar round of threats and taunts tossed her way, the which she ticks off by rote.

Bomback repeats by rote (even Long's character is a nerdy version of Jackson's wide - eyed tagalong in the last entry) and only rarely locates zesty hero - villain and hero - sidekick banter.

The truth is that this film is mostly plain work, done by rote, like any introductory potions class.

Rogers had never conducted this sort of personal interview before and was nervous when he realized that Harding had recited her story so many times that «a lot of it came out by rote.»

These people who make these things, they seem to edit them by rote (I know they do, actually; I've watched some trailers being built in the editing room).

The Bishops who convened at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884 determined to write a catechism for Catholic children — the famous Baltimore Catechism, which was a standard text in Catholic schools for the next 80 years, its questions and answers about the Church and God learned, by rote, by millions of children, in a fashion that might put Muslim madrassas to shame — and then issued what today would be considered a terribly draconian and medieval (parochial?)

Students do math drills — by rote — and spelling is learned with games such as Hangman.

Images of such schools are set against descriptions of schools in which intellectual engagement is driven out by rote memorization and motivation by grades and test scores.

They move to a one - room schoolhouse, dress in period clothing, adopt old - fashioned names, and learn the traditional way — by rote or on a chalkboard.

In the digital age we live in, going back to learning times tables by rote seems like an archaic form of learning, which is likely to be difficult for the already stretched teaching profession, so coming up with enjoyable paths of learning for both the educator and the student is more than likely the best option.

«It's much better to grasp the fundamentals and have no boundaries at all, than learn a fixed range of recipes by rote.

The 21st century requires a new kind of learner — not someone who can simply churn out answers by rote, but a student who can think expansively and solve problems resourcefully.

For many parents (and some teachers), they were taught a process for solving problems — often by rote — with little understanding when they were at school themselves.

True learning is not about memorizing or learning by rote.

It's All About the Content Content consumption in a connected environment is significantly different from content consumption in linear teaching, where the textbook was king and learning was by rote.

Believe it or not, you can teach skills, be explicit about them but also integrate and personalise learning so children can think rather than learn by rote and mindlessly repeat what they are told.

It is still based on learning by rote despite endless studies proving it doesn't work.»

For instance, assigning students to schools by rote can undermine individual agency.

Is it totally unpredictable and therefore has to be mastered by rote learning (look - cover - write - check) and by repeated writing?

He said: «By rote learning people think students are going to be practicing ad nauseam and that is going to be the preferred approach to teaching our students.