learn by rote
Example Sentences
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A lot of players learn by rote so that things eventually become automatically - that's difficult to do in a short space of time unless you have the natural talent.
From BBC • May 10, 2017
Instead, teachers drum into students a ton of stuff they must learn by rote so as to jump through hoops leading up to the all-important university entrance examination.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2012
They're not pack animals," says Shefferman, "and they don't learn by rote, like dogs.
From Time Magazine Archive
You can learn by rote and by hearsay many things; but if you have won insight, you have won it not without the aid of your own individual experience.
From The Sources Of Religious Insight by Royce, Josiah
When, however, you learn by rote you know the task as you learned it, and not in the reverse way.
From Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget by Loisette, A. (Alphonse)
