On average, school pupils in Wales will have had eight hours of cookery lessons during their time at school.

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Because the study will focus on students between the ages of four and eight, the classroom lessons will rely heavily on peer modelling, such as showing kindergartners a video of a child successfully distracting herself during the marshmallow task.

NEWYORKER: Don��t!

In France pupils start a foreign language at nine - and in Italy language lessons begin at eight.

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The movie Mean Girls just turned eight years old, but the lessons it teaches on the politics of girl world and navigating the high school experience are timeless.

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He announced that he would apply the lessons he had learned to his entire, eight-hundred-acre property, and many other farmers did the same.

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While Bose offers just eight leadership principles, Ferrante has come up with a staggering 88 lessons he says he learned from the Mob.

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