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Rote learning or learning by rote is learning things by repeating them without thinking about them or trying to understand them.

• He is very sceptical about the value of rote learning.
  

... Cobuild

1. A memorizing process using routine or repetition, often without full attention or comprehension: learn by rote.

2. Mechanical routine.

... Am-Heritage