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The memorization of information by frequent repeat is not so practical to
all subjects, like medicine, history, etc. Take history for the first example.
No doubt, anyone could and can memorize all of historical events occurring in
the past by frequent repeat, but it is and will be impossible to automatically
or fully draw on the lessons as well as experiences from these events without
deeply thinking by any governor, historian, teacher and student. Another example
is that the main goal of an apprentice or internee on medicine is to be a future
expert. How can he achieve it? Needless to say, he will warrant his success
through a huge practice rather than mechanically learning.
It is a fact that learning by rote is a basic approach to education. By
reciting or memorizing, to some extent, a student can improve his academic
performance on objective tests, consisting of multiple choice, matching, filling
in blank and etc; however, one distinguished Nobel Prize Winner, YuanZhe Li, a
headmaster of scientific technology research center of Taiwan of China,
graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, ever said that
objective tests test memorization, but good writers can get good grades despite
they do not mechanically recite the information. He also said that in the
future, students will need the skills for subjective tests, not objective tests.
So, the best way of a test in education systems does not always depend on
memorization of information.
In brief, while some scholars claim that rote learning is a very useful
technique over the period of learning, I still believe that the function of this
procedure is not the only way to overcome any difficulties that we might
encounter in mass educational systems.
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:25:02