This suggests that the value of a college education has little to do with learning.

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She said it would be unrealistic to expect agencies facing an "extremely steep learning curve", with little experience of construction on this scale, to get things 100% right first time.

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To date, some of the most successful apps replicate learning games in the classroom but perhaps with a little more fun.

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So at the College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center that I visited earlier today, nearly 200 little kids are spending full days learning in classrooms with highly qualified teachers. (Applause.) And so I was working with them to build towers and replicate sculptures and sing songs.

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He was a little shaky in the final but this event is all about learning to deal with the pressure of a big occasion.

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In contrast, those with a learning-oriented attitude continue to plug away until they reach their goal, like The Little Engine That Could.

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Five of 20 early-learning spots were filled after the new center sent an email to workers sharing its building, with little additional advertising.

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The local library then became his seat of learning, along with the shops, streets and bars of the Hill district, and the workplaces whose little incidents punctuated the boredom of a series of dead-end jobs.

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We were increasingly aware of the generational gap between him and Andrew, who sported a UFC baseball cap, fiddled with his mobile phone and, to Sheattie's dismay, spent so much time in school and so little time learning how to live off the land.

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