For example, he told me in grade school that I could learn a thing or two from watching more football.
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Labour AM Joyce Watson and Conservative Nick Ramsay both suggested introducing money management into the school curriculum so that children learn of the dangers involved with credit cards and loans from an early age.
Instead, we should create a climate where people believe that school is a place that, if you work, you will learn.
He always stressed that I go to school and just learn, get my education.
Research also shows that when school children are active, they learn better.
He mentioned to me that in pilot school he did in fact learn how to use a slide rule and watch bezel slide rule.
The op-ed editors would never accept an article arguing, say, for the return of high school home-economics courses so that girls would learn to cook.
And I'm a big believer that the most important thing that a kid can learn in school is how to learn and how to think.
Michael Fenton, a May graduate of the University of Florida Hough Graduate School of Business in Gainesville, expected to learn about job openings from career services but quickly realized that the school's on-campus recruiting and other connections for jobs for its accelerated class may not be enough to get him hired.
And students from disadvantaged families need schools that expand time to learn through longer school days and years, in order for them to catch up.
Stuber, a former police officer and founder of the Escape School, told CNN that even very young children might learn to resist and escape an abductor.
They hotly deny that children learn better social skills on a school playground than at home.
Children also have a right to learn critical thinking in school, and works that offend no one are unlikely to help them develop those skills.
It was there that another volunteer told Zaremba about Experience Corps, a nonprofit that recruits tutors to mentor elementary school students struggling to learn to read.
He said, I've had to import thousands of foreign teachers because they're all insisting that Korean children have to learn English in elementary school.
It also gives children who may lack any support at home the firm structures that they need if they are to learn in school.
The country is closer to the goal that "all children in America will start school ready to learn, " in part because more two-year-olds are being immunized against preventable childhood diseases, and more parents are now reading to their children.
One reason the poor learn so little is that a big chunk of school spending is wasted.
Emily must learn that what was good for college and law school is only a small fraction of what is good for business.
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Cesar had played quarterback for his high school football team and knew that through practice and repetition the human brain can learn almost any skill.
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When my son was in high school, I set up a brokerage account for him, so that he could learn about the stock market.
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For instance, Manzoor Bahadur, who runs a large clothing retailer, complains that parents lose control of their children when their youngsters learn English, and says that children who spend time at school in Pakistan do no worse (and sometimes better) than those who stay in Bradford.
They had caught on right away that this was a pretend school, where they were free of all requirement to learn anything, just as they were free of times tables and memory work.
We should not accept a school in South Carolina that was built in the 1800s, where kids are having to learn in trailers, and every time the railroad goes by the tracks, the building shakes and the teacher has to stop teaching.
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Many would be surprised to learn that, not long ago, only rich kids went to high school, let alone college.
A. program at Warwick Business School in England, students learn to express themselves more effectively by taking a theater course that involves the nearby Royal Shakespeare Company.
Their reaction to the offense was shock: He was removed from the school and given a new violin instructor, whose first demand of his student was that he learn the Mendelssohn concerto first.
And this one is a pet peeve of mine, specifically because I work with people that have gone to Phoenix and other places online and knowing what I went through at brick and mortar state school, there is no doubt in my mind that these people DID NOT work nearly as hard or learn and took the classes I had to.
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The argument is that students with home backgrounds that deprive them of economic, social, and health "capital" arrive at school less ready to learn than their more privileged peers.
Some experts argue that the programs belong at trade schools and that students should use their undergraduate years to learn something about the world before heading to business school for an M.
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