notionistic education / teaching?
What's the right word to indicate a type of education based on memorizing facts or a superficial understanding of things, without real insight or critical mind development?
In my native language (Italian) we have expressions like "nozionismo" or "educazione nozionistica" or "didattica nozionistica". But, after I looked in the dictionary, it seems to me that the word "notion" in this case is a "false friend". In fact, "nozione" seems different from "notion", which is rather like an opinion.
The English word for the kind of education you describe is "rote" learning.