Rote memorisation is not entirely useless. It can help children to learn the basics such as the multiplication tables.
死记硬背并非是一无是处。它可以帮助孩子牢记住像乘法表这样的基础知识。
This also applies to mechanical memorisation without the emotional involvement for the purpose of generating automatic feeling with the language.
同样,为了形成自然语感,没有感情投入的机械的背诵也是不可取的。
Memorisation of information by frequent repetition (rote learning) plays a role in many education systems. Does the usefulness of this method outweigh the limitations?