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Indeed, according to surveys, employers have expressed a preference for students who have received a broadly-based education that has taught them to write well, think critically, research creatively, and communicate easily.

Nurses that are still at the bedside view these kids with suspicion," says Linda Pellico, who has taught nursing at Yale University for 18 years.

The findings of the study so against received wisdom that boys do better when taught alongside girls.

Her mother was often ill, and so from the age of two her father took her with him to work and taught her about stocks and shares.

He has taught Spanish for a couple of years at a local school.

Children should be taught to be more careful

As I was growing up, I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything.

For example, several months after listening to an informative speech, Pete Gentry in North Carolina rescued his brother who is choking on food, by using the method taught by student speaker, Julie Paris.

200 college kids were taught to play some unfamiliar video games.

A 2009 University of British Columbia study of women with an eating disorder who were taught to knit found that learning the craft led to significant improvements.

Dori taught high school engineering for 11 years.

Frederic became one of her assistants, and Irene taught him the techniques required to work with radioactivity.

In your opinion, can the skills of negotiation be taught?

My mother had taught me to knit at 15, and I knitted in class throughout college and for a few years thereafter.

They were taught that the brain is like a muscle that gets stronger with use and that learning prompts the brain to grow new connections.

Robert Summers, who has taught at Cornell Law School for about 40 years, announced this week in a detailed, footnoted memorandum - that he would ban laptop computers from his class on contract law.

From self-service checkout lines at supermarket to industrial robots armed with saws and taught to carve up animal bodies in slaughter-houses, these ever-more-intelligent machines are now not just assisting workers but actually kicking them out of their jobs.

American politicians will have to develop the courage to follow what is taught in all American public-policy schools: that there are good taxes and bad taxes.

It taught him how to think independently and abstractly about space and time, and it wasn't long before he became a philosopher himself.

He once taught at a local high school

Well, first of all, he kept the two dolphins together in the same tank and taught them to press levers whenever they saw a light.

As I was growing up, I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything.

It is taught in universities and used in many translations, often in scientific or technological works.

But the good news is that, Moffitt says, self-control can be taught by parents, and through school curricula that have been proved to be effective.

For example, in one chapter she exposes a myth that I've heard taught by university physics professors.

Instead, most people seem to learn better if they're taught in several ways, especially if one is visual.

Should we change the way math is taught in schools, or eliminate some courses entirely?

Maria Droujkova is a founder of Natural Math, and has taught basic calculus concepts to 5-year-olds.

Such findings, he says, suggest that "this network can be called on to process and store the kind of information taught in school—potentially giving students access to a range of untapped mental powers".

They are taught to be compliant and respectful to adults.

We are taught to believe that only by going to the best schools and getting the best grades can we escape the rat race and build a better future.

After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try all costs to rid them of their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously.

But it can be taught to children and developed in adults.

Daughter elisabeth explains, "our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace."

Five years ago, when I taught art at a school in seattle, I used tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students.

He taught him how to make engravings.

It is likely that babies are not born knowing the basic fact of the universe; nor are they ever clearly taught it.

Ten years after my chess class with Ashley, I'm still putting to use what he taught me: "the absolute most important skill that you learn when you play chess is how to make good decisions."

There are several reasons to believe that the urges to help, inform and share are not taught, but naturally possessed in young children.

They were influenced by what Helene taught them.

This is what my father has taught me--to always face difficulties and hope for the best.

Though he was just a poor newsboy, he had been taught some good things.

We're taught to read because it's necessary for much of human understanding.

But we are taught instead to "decide", just as our president calls himself "the Decider"?

But we are taught instead to ‘decide,'just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider.'?

Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly tended to live shorter lives.

He taught himself shorthand to get an even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in Parliament.

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that "liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools".