Rote learning..

Question:

•Mr. Ashish Bhatnagar UNV: 

Do you think Rote learning is completely wrong?

There are lot of things where memorising plays a very important role.

What's your take on this?

• Dr Jacqueline Mahadik UNV: Rote learning is defined as the memorization of information based on repetition. The two best examples of rote learning are the alphabet and numbers. Slightly more complicated examples include multiplication tables and spelling words. At the high-school level, scientific elements and their chemical numbers must be memorized by rote. And, many times, teachers use rote learning without even realizing they do so.

•Dr Jacqueline Mahadik UNV: The true purpose of rote memorization in education is to create automaticity, so that, for example, when a child sees a letter or group of letters he or she automatically says the sounds. ... For example, there is no substitute for rote memorization in learning the arithmetic facts.

•Mr. Rafeeque UNV: Exploratory space and no substitution is also a factor in few highlighted may be. But majority spaces are to be unlocked. For that should  create an ambience for child centred education, where we find inquisitive minds. Those minds are meant to grow. Hope the unlock there.

•Mr Alok Kumar Mohanty UNV: Rote memory plays a vital role at a certain stage of development. Later when the intellect becomes more dominant in the developmental stages of a child understanding must be emphasized. Further intellectual understanding should pave the way for other kind of learning i.e. learning by experimentation, learning by intuition, learning by identification.

•Dr. Jacqueline Mahadik UNV:
Steps for rote learning,
1) Read the material as fast as you can, to familiarize yourself with it. ...
2) Understand what you read. ...
3) Memorize it. ...
This is the simplest but not the easiest form of memorization but it grants results. ...
4) This simple method works hand in hand with rote memorization and further makes the whole thing stable.

ADVANTAGES OF ROTE LEARNING
There are some benefits of Rote Learning, including:

•Ability to quickly recall basic facts
•Helps develop foundational knowledge

DISADVANTAGES OF ROTE LEARNING
The drawbacks of learning by memorization include:

•Can be repetitive
•Easy to lose focus
•Doesn’t allow for a deeper understanding of a subject
•Doesn’t encourage the use of social skills
•No connection between new and previous knowledge
•May result in wrong impression or understanding a concept
•While being able to quickly recall pieces of information is helpful, to understand information on a deeper level students must use a different method of learning: meaningful learning.

•Mr. Nahid Raza UNV: Rote learning is never useful. It is punishment and turture to the children. It hampers creativity. It kills motivation.

•Dr Jacqueline Mahadik UNV: When rote memorization is applied as the main focus of learning, it is not considered higher-level thought or critical thinking. Opponents to rote memorization argue that creativity in students is stunted and suppressed, and students do not learn how to think, analyze or solve problems.

•Mrs Naveed Anjum UNV: Modern research based and evidence based education believes in student centred and student friendly teaching and learning.  Modern curriculum is brain based, it is age aligned and curiosity based. Hence students do not rote learn if we adopt such teaching and learning methodologies

•Dr Shakila Banu UNV: In vedic and madrasa system it was the rote learning which was practised.initially rote learning  really gives good results once the by heart the recall will be easy . And rote learning is still in practise at many centers.

•Mr Alok Kumar Mohanty UNV: In early phases of learning it is mostly rote learning only for e.g. picking up mother tongue by a child is based on rote memory, repeated listening, reading and writing gives the ability to manipulate and use the letters, words coupling with physical, emotional needs.

•Mr. Rafeeque A S UNV: Whichever the way it's, exploring the concepts opens a young researcher among kids. Beyond memorising the foundational alphabets or numericals, push for rote learning and pasting in papers turn villian here.

•Dr Jacqueline Mahadik UNV: Rote learning still plagues our system, students study only to score marks in exams, and sometimes to crack exams like IIT JEE, AIIMS or CLAT. The colonial masters introduced education systems in India to create clerks and civil servants, and we have not deviated much from that pattern till today. If once the youngsters prepared en masse for civil services and bank officers exams, they now prepare to become engineers. I

• Mr Alok Kumar Mohanty UNV: But rote learning does condition the mind. Only when we introduce the next level of learning i.e learning by intellect-understanding, then rote learning compliment with understanding. Otherwise rote learning alone tends to be mechanical and kills creativity. Further understanding must be complemented by other forms of learning otherwise intellectual learning tends to be logical but one sided. It only deals with half truths.

•Mr. Nahid Raza UNV: We are killing their creativity

•Mrs Naveed Anjum UNV: But our education system suppress the scientist in them

• Mrs Naveed Anjum UNV: Their ability of observation,  curiosity and creativity is completely oppressed

•Mr. Arun Agrawal:
Rote learning although it helps till certain age but as students are at growing stage, it reduces their comprehensive skill, to understand the concepts as well. Where certain facts are there such as in history or any statistical data it will be helpful.

•Mrs. Madhumita Jana:
I feel Rote learning is sometimes required in certain topics and definitions for securing good marks. But  concepts can be memorized after proper understanding. When it comes to multiplication tables ,it has been found that students memorize without understanding what are multiplication tables and why do we need them. Students should learn to discover their own tables using various activities and games at primary level then memorizing becomes very easy and learning becomes fun. Every subject should have a blend of traditional and modern methodology of teaching & learning.

•Mrs. Bhavana UNV:
For mathematics tables it is best.....so it depends the topic and subjects.

•Mrs Durga K Nair UNV:
We shall never say that, Rote learning is totally wrong.
Rote learning is very much needed, based on the content of the subject and depth of knowledge.
It should not be done on all times and for all the subjects. Instead of that,  it should be insisted according to the requirements.
This will add more flavor to the learning process.

•Dr. Shakila Banu UNV:
If the learning  is in a order means step by step the rote learning process will be easy to make it a practise.
Step one , let the teacher make the student understand in a way they student can by heart.
Step two, teach them in sequence.
Step three, the chronology  and the flow should help the students in rote learning.
Step by step ,in order ,event wise sequence, chronology will not only helps in rote learning but last for long in memory .this is what I feel and it's my view about rote learning.
 
•Mrs Geeta Shukla UNV:
In my point of view Rote learning is not at all good.

It kills the learning capacity of child.
This doesn't help in bringing the full potential of a child.

Some times we get confused rote learning with memorising skills.
My opinion says that these two are different things.

Rote learning is when a child is forced to do things as per teachers instruction, we don't allow child to think , ask, question .

It is different from memorising.

•Mr. Mettle J S: Rote learning is very important in transforming the informations into knowledge at the level of schooling

In the thinking patterns mostly the things which basics ,Fundamentals and facts are memorised by rote learning

•Mrs Vijayalakshmi Menon UNV:
Rote learning is required when a child has to memorize facts like tables , dates in history, formulas in science and maths. We cannot avoid rote learning, but it should not be applied where the child can use his thinking power to understand the concept.

•Mr. R K Khanna: To 100% in CBSE examination, it should be there for toppers,
Now 20 questions will be objective types.Thorough reading of books along with rote learning of long questions is must.

•Mr. Cosmos Ennu Kwaw UNV: Rote learning is a memorization technique based on repetition. The idea is that one will be able to quickly recall the meaning of the material the more one repeats it. Some of the alternatives to rote learning include meaningful learning, associative learning, and active learning.

Although Rote learning brings about some learning advantages, it has has a lot of disadvantages as per the following;

Some disadvantages of Rote Learning
1. Children feel disinterested in their studies
Monotonous repetition of study matter makes a child feel disinterested and also tired. They slowly begin to dis-engage from the subject matter due to boredom and over time lose their passion for learning.

2. Subject matter is not fully understood.
Rote Learning employs raw rehearsal and mnemonics to ensure memorisation of content, without paying due attention to understanding. Instead of learning to apply the concepts beyond the classroom, children only learn what they need to score well in tests.

3. Memorisation is short-term.
Mindless parroting of textbook material leads to short term memorisation making it a waste of a child’s energy and effort.

4. Problem-solving not prioritised.
Rote learning only covers one spectrum of education—memorisation. It does not explain concepts and ideas and leaves children without the necessary critical thinking skills needed to succeed in an information rich world.

5. Real-life application ignored.
Real-life application is essential so children can easily relate and understand information better. If ignored, a child may find it difficult to
transfer theoretical knowledge to life.