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...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...
...Once he began his Harvard tenure. Rudenstine quickly earned the reputation of a voracious learner and listener—a distinction that would only grow as time went by. Ten years later, many still vividly remember their first encounters with Rudenstine. From Mass. Hall meetings to Lowell House teas, Rudenstine made a notable first impression...
...There is no substitute for direct personal interaction between a learner and a teacher. There is some room to promote that interaction," Summers said...
...deep thinker. He doesn't consider that there's a simple answer to every problem," Stevenson says. "He's a fast learner, in a practical sense. If he sees a better way to do it, no matter what has worked in the past, he'll try something...
Elliott, who went back to school and got a bachelor's degree in psychology at 39 and then a master's in social work at 44, is the kind of person that people mean when they use the phrase lifelong learner. And she's not alone--in an American Association of Retired Persons study published in July, 9 of 10 adults ages 50 and over said they wanted to actively seek out learning opportunities to keep current, grow personally and enjoy the simple pleasure of mastering something new. "We're increasingly becoming aware that learning is a prescription...