I never have been much into rote.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
But he did believe that even a circus is a thousand times better than a so-called Christian home for the true and complete development of a child, if in the circus the child is free and happy, and is allowed full play for her imagination, and is not arrested in her development by rote storing of facts and too early drill in arithmetic, and has the rich productive love of even one parent, and has blessed opportunities for loving service for her pets and her friends; and if in the so-called Christian home she is robbed of these privileges even in the name of religion.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
So I got my spectacles and a quill pen, for I never rite with eny of the new-fangled kinds, and I jest rote out "Majer Jack Downing" in a stile that made the fellow stare.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith