Memorization Quotes

• You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

  Bobby Fischer

  Book, Chess, Knows

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. January 27, 2002.

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• Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

  Sugata Mitra

  Imagination, Students, Resourcefulness

  "We Need Schools... Not Factories" by Sugata Mitra, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Never memorize something that you can look up.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Spiritual

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• Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about the rote memorization of facts. That's a discipline issue. You need the rote skill in order to have something to improvise off of, otherwise you are simply playing air guitar.

  John Medina

  Air Guitar, Order, Skills

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  School, Vocabulary, Goes On

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• I'm blessed with very fast memorization skills, so I don't have to read it too far in advance.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Blessed, Skills

  Source: collider.com

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• I come from a background of 40 pages a day. The other side of the coin is quality can suffer a bit on those shows and you can get into some bad habits but thanks to those days, I can do memorization in my sleep.

  Sherri Saum

  Sleep, Suffering, Quality

  Source: 411mania.com

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• To prepare youth for success in entrepreneurial (and free) cultures, education tends to emphasize originality, creativity, breadth, depth and leadership skills rather than rote memorization, standardized curricula or socialization. The latter skill set is vital in societies with strong upper classes employing the lower castes, but the former is essential to free democratic nations.

  Oliver DeMille

  Strong, Creativity, Class

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• Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.

  Chuck Thompson

  Vocabulary, Keys, Games

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• The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.

  David Guterson

  Children, Needs, Homeschooling

  David Guterson (1992). “Family matters: why homeschooling makes sense”, Harcourt

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• I took biology in high school and didn't like it at all. It was focused on memorization. ... I didn't appreciate that biology also had principles and logic ... [rather than dealing with a] messy thing called life. It just wasn't organized, and I wanted to stick with the nice pristine sciences of chemistry and physics, where everything made sense. I wish I had learned sooner that biology could be fun as well.

  Francis Collins

  Appreciation, Fun, Nice

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• The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Ideas, People, Example

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• Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Book, Variation, Chess

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• My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.

  Robert Morse

  Skills, Directors, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which is memorization of spelling patterns. In doing so, they ensure that children will neither be able to read nor calculate.

  Greg Perry

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• Soaps are really like boot camp for acting. You learn about the industry, you learn about being on stage, and you learn about showing up on time. The sheer volume of work, on a daily basis, blows your mind and forces you to really work that muscle of memorization and just being able to change things on your feet.

  Michael Graziadei

  Blow, Feet, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• ... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

  Paulo Freire

  Teaching, Reading, Learning

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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