learning by heart
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As a boy he showed an extraordinary fondness for collecting and learning by heart the legends and old-time ballads which were current in that part of Scotland where he was born.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various
Many schools realise, too, that learning by heart and, in general, memorising from books are not the only means of storing the mind of a child.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert
Footnote 46: By positive instruction Froebel means learning by heart, or by being told results; as distinguished from actual education or development of the faculties, and the working out of results by pupils for themselves.
From Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. by Michaelis, Emilie
These two things make it difficult to use this absorbing field of poetry as subject-matter for learning by heart.
From Literature for Children by Lowe, Orton
The chief, but not the only, merit of learning by heart as an exercise is that it compels the mind to concentrate.
From Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women by Bennett, Arnold
