Yet many of the European students - especially the women - come here to learn Arabic and more about Islam, rather than to learn about France or indeed to become imams.
Modern education systems deserve much of the blame, both for fostering the belief that education ends when a person leaves school and for its emphasis on being right rather than on how to learn from mistakes.
For example, they should be held accountable for their ability to learn from mistakes rather than for their ability to hit their budgets.
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But most native English-speakers opt for Afrikaans, said to be easy to learn, rather than a useful but harder African tongue.
Instead it seems we regularly prefer pithy soundbites that support our world view rather than intelligent arguments that challenge us to learn and expand our understanding and the media is no different.
Companies tend to react to cyber attacks rather than prepare for them, and malicious hackers meanwhile learn new tricks to circumvent the gates.
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She said NHS Ayrshire and Arran tried to cover up mistakes rather than learn from them.
It enables us to learn to respond rather than react to stressful situations and enjoy more of what life has to offer.
But the parents tolerate this blundering and keep the young crows full of bugs (rather than blueberries) until they eventually learn to master the leaves themselves.
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Rather than abandoning BYOD, companies will learn to use the right Mobile Device Management (MDM) software to create the right security policies and keep costs under control.
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This allows students to physically do something, rather than simply learn about a subject.
Smaller operators learn to work alongside, rather than against them, and the gorillas are happy with the chimps and spider monkeys, so long as they keep bringing the bananas.
Among them is the notion that companies and individuals must stick to a plan, rather than iteratively experiment, making what Peter Sims calls little bets, and Johannson build upon by recommending purposeful bets, one that cause you to take action sooner rather than later, then learn from what happens.
But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
He will stress that pupils attending boarding schools, such as his own prep school, Cumnor House in West Sussex, are encouraged to learn safely from their mistakes "rather than to repeat them".
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The publishing firms that survive what promises to be a wrenching transition will be those whose bosses and employees can learn quickly to think like multimedia impresarios rather than purveyors of perfect prose.
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Saunders believes Tesco will be successful in the U.S. because it intends to grow organically, rather than by acquisition, and can gradually learn from its mistakes.
Danny Corns, who lives in one of the 15 flooded houses, said it was "reassuring to a point" to learn it was a sensor that had failed rather than the pumps themselves.
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Bankers must learn to lend on the basis of creditworthiness, rather than cronyism.
Newcomers need to learn to love the saguaro cactus, he says, rather than planting eucalyptus, olive and mulberry trees.
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Large employers should learn how to internally transfer and retrain their existing staff rather than, yet again, complaining about skills shortages while at the same time firing the annual 10% of randomly selected people.
The outfielder is in the final year of his contract, and heading into free agency as a left fielder rather than a center fielder could hurt his value especially if he struggles to learn the new position.
Under an overhaul of the national curriculum in England, 14- to 16-year-olds will study two Shakespeare plays, rather than the one currently required, while seven- to 11-year-olds will learn about the playwright in history lessons.
Because Internet businesses are increasingly about building a community of loyal users, record companies must learn to be loved if they are to flourish like booksellers rather than go the way of the circulating library.
The instructional emphasis is on fundamentals rather than quick-fixes, insuring a high frustration level for old dogs like me trying to learn new tricks.
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Learning a skill depends on building new memories, and studies show that we learn new information most efficiently if we spread our practice out rather than trying to cram it all into a short period (like before a test).
One of its programs -- Road Aware -- helps drivers learn to recognize and anticipate road hazards in front of a video screen rather than on the road.
Is there something to learn from the persistence of a sloth in making slow, steady progress, rather than jumping at short-term opportunities?
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For example, if someone always preferred to spell "thanks" as "thx, " SwiftKey 3 would learn this behavior and add "thx" in as a word rather than continuously trying to correct it.
My thing is to teach people how to choose stocks for themselves, rather than specific recommendations, but I would definitely say go to IBM to get some information about cloud technology and learn about it and then move on from there.
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