Each semester, professors perform an unappreciated, if not unnoticed, feat of mental fortitude. Memorizing the names of up to 100 students a semester is no easy task, but for many professors, it’s one ...

A RECENT PIECE in Newsweek prompts an editor to reflect on that subversive phrase “rote memorization.” Reporter Paul Mooney uses the term–correctly, for once–in his story on the revival of Confucian ...

In today’s educational and leadership arenas, a dangerous narrative has emerged: Self-styled “enlightened” educators disparage rote memorization as obsolete, championing critical thinking alone. Yet ...

School is ending for the year, and students surely welcome the break. But they will do well to think on how they learn to learn so that next Fall they can be more successful with less effort.

Here’s a hypothesis: Perhaps one factor in Volodymyr Zelensky’s skill as a wartime political leader is his training as an actor, which developed his ability to rally followers, evoke empathy, and ...