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Is rote learning getting an undeserved bad rap?

The fear is that we’re turning our children into automatons by force-feeding them useless bits of information — facts that can be found instantly on Wikipedia.

Rote memorization: Overrated, or underrated?

The fear is that we're turning our children into automatons by force-feeding them useless bits of information — facts that can be found instantly on Wikipedia, like the dates of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) or the equation for calculating the area of a circle.