- I don’t think there is any field that is valuable by itself that is also sufficiently covered with rote memorization alone (at least in the way we’re discussing memorization, I’ll present a different way in a subsequent post). Vocabulary may be the closest thing to this probably, but it’s not really a whole subject space (and even that has etymology, which makes them not like randomly different bits). I also can’t really think of anything we teach as truly just rote memorization.