Many people conceive of learning as a passive endeavor, the way they remember it being back in school - do whatever the teacher says, memorize the information in the textbook.

许多人认为学习就像在学校里那样被动的去努力——听老师的话，记住书本上的东西。

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As the story said, peer and project learning is being taken up in other South Dakota school districts at least nominally as a way of possibly re-igniting student interest in learning.

FORBES: South Dakota, Internet Learning Pioneer