Editing Memorization (section)

=== Rote learning ===

[[Rote learning]] is a learning technique which focuses not on understanding but on memorization by means of repetition. For example, if words are to be learned, they may be repeatedly spoken aloud or repeatedly written down. Specialized forms of rote learning have also been used in [[Vedic chant]] since as long as three thousand years ago,<ref>Scharfe, Hartmut: "Education in Ancient India", 2002, BRILL; {{ISBN|90-04-12556-6}}, {{ISBN|978-90-04-12556-8}}, at Ch. 13: "Memorising the Veda", page 240</ref> to preserve the intonation and lexical accuracy of very long texts, some with tens of thousands of verses.