Timeline for Do 'learn by heart' & 'learn by rote' mean the same?
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| Jan 30, 2015 at 8:34 | comment | added | rogermue | You should say whether this is your personal interpretation or whether you have some clear evidence. As the etymology of "rote" is unclear I don't see how you can say they are not the same. | |
| Nov 29, 2013 at 10:34 | comment | added | J.R. | I found this excerpt from a commencement address. I don't know if this would qualify as more of an opinion than an "official" definition, but it seems relevant: "Learning by heart — which may be somewhat of a dying tradition — means to learn something so deeply that it becomes part of our core: it fills us; it changes us." The difference might be less in technique than in what we do with the acquired information. | |
| Nov 27, 2013 at 11:56 | comment | added | WS2 | I think that hits the nail on the head. +1. | |
| Nov 27, 2013 at 10:17 | comment | added | Kris | Nice to be of help. Keep coming back to ELU! | |
| Nov 27, 2013 at 10:03 | vote | accept | coderboy | ||
| Nov 27, 2013 at 10:02 | history | answered | Kris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |