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...have discovered that this additional stage of “delayed” learning is absolutely dependent on sleep and, more specifically, on certain types of sleep at certain times of the night. Perhaps most worrying from the perspective of the student, or learner, is the finding that if you do not sleep the first night after learning this information, you lose the chance to develop the additional, memory-enhancing stage...
...student here and is friends with a tremendous amount of the faculty,” said Clark, who was Kagan’s teacher when she was a third-year at HLS. “And in her case, she’s so bright and such a fast learner that you have to multiply all the time she’s spent here to make it equivalent to anyone else...
...Fauves were followed by the Cubists, led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who deconstructed the basic sphere, cylinder, cone and cube that learner artists were set to copy. They broke apart these simple solids to construct ambiguous images that appear to emerge from the canvas or flatten out like a collapsing card-house. Their rather dry theories were gleefully hijacked by others and transformed into still lives, portraits, street and café scenes. Cubist angles form the background to Russian Marc Chagall's Paris through the Window of 1913 and even become a pair of frilly panties in Italian...
...public school. Every teacher has something different to offer, and the exposure to varying points of view is a critical element in the development of tolerance. Knowledge is not a commodity to be traded between expert and novice. Rather, it is a construction of ideas negotiated by the learner in a social setting. ROSAMAR GARCIA Vancouver...
...relationship with our very own children, yet teens seem to live in another world--one with nonstop Internet access and encyclopedic knowledge of song lyrics. When teens start dating, they lurch back and forth between their private agonies and joys, and mask their problems and heartaches with arguments about learner's permits and lip gloss. We parents wait up nights and cross our fingers, hoping our kids will make it to adulthood unscathed. Unfortunately, many of them...