Canada. I have taught in public schools, private schools, aboriginal schools and French immersion schools. Rote memorization is not the way we teach (for some thing yes, like memorizing multiplication tables)
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What subject do you teach, if I may ask? In all of them except for maybe math or languages there is always some official narrative that is being pushed as an ultimate truth (even though often it is unsubstantiated). As in history, biology, economics.