learn by rote
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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
To learn by memory is to learn by rote, as a parrot: to learn by heart is to learn morally—practically.
From Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
Neither ought the child to be required to learn by rote long passages from the Scriptures.
From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by Rhodes, M. (Mosheim)
