Memorization

Memorization is not the antithesis of creativity; it is absolutely indispensable to creativity.

The Value of Knowledge | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

Memorization by itself may be questionable, but add it to increased meaningful doing in role playing, case studies and project-based work, and you have a much better and longer-lasting outcome.

Many Students Don't Seem to Be Working Hard Enough 2011

"Memorization, regurgitation - vegetation," would be an apt slogan.

Joseph A. Palermo: Margaret Spellings, Arne Duncan -- What's the Difference? 2010

Memorization of historia exercised one's heuristic capacities, insinuating an array of associative paths for thought. 137 With architecture as an operative metaphor, holy recollection secured historia as a commonplace foundation for personal experience.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

"Memorization is one of those lost things, it hasn't been the 'in' thing for a while," she said.

Professor Pushes For Return To Slow Reading 2010

Memorization is an essential part of being an effective mathematician.

What Do We HAVE To Memorize? Darren Kuropatwa 2009

Memorization is not inimical to either learning or critical thinking but is often the touchstone for those higher-order skills.

Why Our Children Need National Multiple Choice Tests 2009

Children Indoctrinated with Antisemitism on an Egyptian-Saudi Koran Memorization Channel, excerpt (from a lesson being taught to kindergarten aged children): "... our hatred toward the Jews is perpetual and continuous."

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

I was walking down the street on Edgeware Road and saw this man who looked--well, like the stereotype of an Al-Qa`idah member (of course, the stereotype is not accurate or fair, but you get the point)--and he stood at a street corner holding a bucket on which is written: "School (wait, that was actually maadraaassaaa) for Qur'an Memorization."

Wednesday, June 27, 2007 As'ad 2007

Memorization is the bedrock of the oral tradition through which Christianity spread, since books and printing were so rare and expensive, and few people could read.

Ethnicity, spelling, and "rote" memorization. Ann Althouse 2005