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CHICAGO -- A new study offers older adults a simple way to combat memory loss: memorization. Researchers found that seniors who engaged in an intensive period of rote learning followed by an equally ...

Rote memorization is not a relic—it is fundamental to our capacity for deep analysis. Historical studies, such as Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, reveal that the retention of ...

The bards of Ancient Greece used rote memorization to recall epic poems of thousands of lines in length. What makes the modern literature professors who resent memorization think that they know better ...

An erudite reader, former Foreign Service officer Jack Aubert of Falls Church, Va., objected to a prominent feature of modern education. “Rote memorization is very useful, and it was a mistake to ...