| Canons of literature may fossilize their subject and reduce its study to dry memorization for its own sake. |
| This rote memorization is the first level of learning in Bloom's Taxonomy, a six step hierarchy of learning. |
| The educational system emphasizes rote learning and memorization, rather than analytical thinking. |
| The syllabic structure of Chinese requires memorization of at least three thousand characters to be literate. |
| It seems college instruction has moved or is moving back to memorization and rote learning. |
| Short texts were written on scrolls or wax tablets as an aid to memorization and oral recitation. |
