Lulis Leal, 47, of New York, is also getting in on the pi memorization action.
China's B-schools stress rote memorization rather than the flexible problem-solving skills required by real-life managers.
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Perhaps no place more does this issue arise than on the issue of memorization.
Several people responded that convergent methodologies like reading and even memorization are not necessarily antithetical to innovation.
This obliviousness is partly the fault of an educational system that emphasizes memorization over actual proficiency in English.
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They treated you to the pleasure of relentless questioning and memorization and recitations.
Along the way, Foer also goes into both the current science of memory and the memorization techniques of centuries past.
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But critics say that the test's emphasis on memorization, fact recall and processing speed can determine college admissions too arbitrarily.
Since becoming a champion in gaming, the skills or traits I acquired include more reflexes as well as becoming better at memorization.
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Analogously, students may resort to pattern matching and memorization as they reach the upper levels of learning because they lack the foundational knowledge needed for true understanding.
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Some parents acknowledge that they enroll their children merely in the hope that all the memorization will give them an edge in Taiwan's fiercely competitive education system.
Make learning real rather than artificial memorization for a test.
Even when I did have to do some rote memorization vis a vis flash cards, I found the process of making my own flash cards helped me remember the info more than just going through them.
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Whenever you hear a snotty European presenting his stereotypes about Americans, he will often describe them as "unintellectual, " "uneducated, " and "poor in math, " because, unlike European schooling, American education is not based on equation drills and memorization.
He and the other Billy, Tade Biesinger, also 12, talked about the months of rehearsal, line memorization, and acting and stamina-building tap and ballet direction that all Billys (there are four of them) undergo before they play to a live audience.
The shift is clearly away from memorization and towards critical thinking where medical training programs will help student to use powerful discovery and language analysis tools like Watson to help them evaluate medical case scenarios and find evidence to help them carefully rationalize decisions.
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The three Muslim clerics are, respectively, the director of a Jamaica Muslim Center Koranic Memorization School in Queens, the deputy Amir (leader) of Majlis Ash Shura (a group that advocates the repressive theocratic code known as Shari'a Law) and New York University's imam, who forced the NYU administration not to display the Danish editorial cartoons of Mohammed that Islamofascists used to foment violence around the world.
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