To him, book learning smelled of wealth only rich people had books at that time and thus of arrogance.
The book learning over, the rookie salesperson shadows an experienced colleague until ready to be let loose on customers.
You develop an attitude that we are all inherently equal regardless of who went to school and who did not that there can be smart people who did not have any book learning and never had a chance.
Charisma House ceased publication of Mr. Tims's book after learning of his divorce, according to the company's chief executive, Steve Strang.
These people create the jobs, which then creates the demand for the education to fill those jobs, where technical book-learning is necessary.
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Her seminal book "Learning from Las Vegas, " written with Venturi and Steven Izenour and published in 1972, has been in print ever since and is still a standard text for architecture students.
It comes with a book, too: Learning Arduino with the Arno so that you can dive right into advanced projects instead of surfing the web looking for help or ideas.
"The work I do focuses on helping organisations to use social technologies to connect the people in their organisations, " says Ms Conner, a partner in the Altimeter Group and author of the forthcoming book The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media.
Why read a book when you can target your learning needs with pinpoint accuracy by heading straight to the Internet?
These book club meetings add value beyond learning new business concepts.
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He read the alphabet book, that staple of childhood learning.
The printed book was a much more powerful learning innovation, because it allowed students to get a good higher education at a university lacking rare manuscripts or world-class scholars.
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But it is also a book of great power, scope and learning.
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With a private log-in, employees can now manage their own payroll and retirement plans, request time-off and other schedule adjustments, book on-line courses and other learning and development tools, engage and be social with colleagues on intranets, and just generally manage their own work lives to an extent that was previously impossible.
"He's a wonderful collaborator, he's very generous and very open and was very interested in learning what the difference between a book and a movie was in terms of what the style would be, and not in the slightest precious about preserving stuff from the book, " Rudin said.
The first step in creating a facilitated network that would ultimately lead to a student-centric learning system we said in our book might come from parents creating tutoring tools online to help their children for example, the father of a mathematics genius daughter who struggles to spell might create a unique method to teach spelling to help her out on YouTube.
What would be so terrible about settling down, traveling the world, learning about wines, maybe writing a book?
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Not too long ago I spent some time with Judith Umlas, Senior Vice President at the International Institute for Learning, to talk about her most recent book Grateful Leadership, Using the Power of Acknowledgement to Engage All your People and Achieve Superior Results.
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Since those in my age group were considerably too callow to lead troops into battle, it was decided at the Navy Department that we would be sent to college, where, as book-toting privates, we would gain a little learning and seasoning, and also a year or two of physical and mental growth, before our fateful collision with the Japs.
Secondly, as a recent book, has detailed, a significant number of undergraduates are learning little in college.
An interesting new book by Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham, The New Social Learning (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Sep 2010) covers this topic very well.
Now he's sitting quietly reading a book on ancient Greece while nearby a girl with cerebral palsy is learning how to make "snow angels" with her body on the floor.
We are stoked by the excitement we generated in announcing The Age of Context: How It Will Change Your Life and Your Work yesterday, but now we have a lot of learning and hard work before we can put our new book into your hands.
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The higher ed world is all abuzz about the release of a brand new book by sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, titled Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses.
The book was the result of a project started in 2010 when students from Cartagena, while learning how to read and write, were invited to submit traditional recipes from their region.
Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in their great book Academically Adrift have taken data from a respectable indicator of critical thinking and problem solving skills, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, as well as the National Survey of Student Engagement and have concluded, roughly, that typically students neither work very hard nor learn very much.
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