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But from an early age he had been a questioning kind of boy who rarely took anything at face value, even though our education at government schools meant learning by rote and pupils were not supposed to question teachers.  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

She said this as if by rote.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

"For the kaiser, God, and the fatherland," the young forester intoned, as though he had learned the response by rote.  (source) Mina Baites, The Silver Music Box, 2017

And yet, in certain ways, the Institute did remind them of other schools: Rote memorization of lessons was discouraged but required; class participation was encouraged but rarely permitted; and although quizzes were given every day, in every class, there was always at least one student who groaned, another who acted surprised, and another who begged the teacher, in vain, not to give it.  (source) Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society, 2007

"Your rote memorization is, like, so impressive," I said.  (source) John Green, Looking for Alaska, 2005

The major difficulty in training animals is that they operate either by instinct or by rote.  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

She had gone to a school that emphasized rote memorization, for which she was by temperament particularly ill-suited, and so she spent a great deal of time doodling in the margins of her textbooks and notebooks, hunched over to hide curlicues and miniature woodland universes from the eyes of her teachers.  (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

At first Werner worries they're taking him downstairs—please, not another pit—but he is brought to the third floor, where an exhausted interpreter who has been booking German prisoners for a month notes his name and rank, then asks a few rote questions while the clerk rifles through Werner's canvas duffel and hands it back.  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

"They will get used to it," the soldier said as if the words were rote in his mouth.  (source) Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic, 1988

Instead of being a rote learning thing, there's a pattern I can figure out.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008

JEFFERSON'S DIARY mr wigin you say rite somethin but i dont kno what to rite an you say i must be thinkin bout things i aint telin nobody an i order put it on paper but i dont kno what to put on paper cause i aint never rote nothin but homework i aint never rote a leter in all my life cause nanan use to get other chiren to rite her leter an read her leter for her not me so i cant think of too much to say but maybe nex time its evenin an i done eat my rice an beans an i done had my cup of milk an the sun comin in the windo cause i can see it splashin on the flo and I can yer ned an them talkin an thats bout all for now i coudn sleep las nite cause i kept dremin it and i dont want dreem it cau†  (source) Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying, 1993

The MetaCops emit rote, shallow laughter.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

He liked to look at them, read them by rote, look at his daddy's printing.†  (source) Stephen King, Cujo, 1981

He rote somthing down on a paper and I got skared of faling the test.  (source) Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon -- Novel, 1966

Dr Strauss rote some things on a peice of paper and prof Nemur talkd to me very sereus.  (source) Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon -- Novel, 1966

I read them over and over a lot of times to see what I rote and I dont no whats going on in my mind so how are they going to.  (source) Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon -- Novel, 1966

And Dr Strauss tolld Prof Nemur somthing I dint understand so wile they was talking I rote down some of the words in my notebook for keeping my progris riports.  (source) Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon -- Novel, 1966

She rote the name down on a paper and Frank laffed and said dont go getting so eddicated that you wont talk to your old frends.  (source) Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon -- Novel, 1966