It was a significant feature of our system. Back when I was a student, I just needed to regurgitate content for let’s say, econs essays and expected to score an A. But these days, we teach students how to apply this content knowledge in real-world contexts. Even more recently, we focus on inventive thinking because the main grouse employers have with their workers is that we don’t know how to take initiative. 

Normally I say *drill and practise* but I like the lethal feel of *drill and kill* haha

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I would have expected rote learning to be a fixture of Asian education. 

I'm not very high on the "drill and kill" approach, but my dad's on your side and he was a better teacher than I ever was.

I do think that it's more important to deviate from orthodoxy when working with the kind of students you work with. After all, we already know the orthodox approach didn't work very well for them.