FOOD HABITS: Eats insects, spiders, earthworms, other invertebrates, and some plant material. Forages through ground litter, under vegetation, and beneath logs,
Learnt is the correct past tense for learn. Although many people now use learned. I think its a case of when you went to school, the correct english usage is learnt, americans say learned and this has been absorbed in to our language use.
Rote methods are routinely used when fast memorization is required, such as learning one's lines in a play or memorizing a telephone number. Rote learning is widely used in the mastery of foundational knowledge.