Quotes About Rote

But if roteness is a danger, it is also the way liturgy works. When you don't have to think all the time about what words you are going to say next, you are free to fully enter into the act of praying; you are free to participate in the life of God.

All which he understood by rote, And, as occasion served, would quote; No matter whether right or wrong; They might be either said or sung.

The strict competences of independence, the formal mastery, the complexities of attitude and know-how necessary to life on the farm, which have been in the making in the race of farmers since before history, all are replaced by the knowledge of some fragmentary task that may be learned by rote in a little while.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

The speeches! They were filled with borrowed things--borrowed over and over again until the words were nothing more than a series of clichés.

Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.

Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?