Ikermenka_learning

With the help of "the A-Z of Learning" at the first lecture I have learned the meaning of some new words for me. Such as:  - crash course - a course of study in which you are taught a lot about a subject in a short time   - refresher course - keeps people informed about new developments in their area of interest or skill   - numeracy - the ability to understand and work with numbers   - tertiary education - education at a college or university (it is like the third step in the education) I hadn't known the difference between american "graduate" and british "graduate", now I know that the first one gets the higher school diploma and the second one gets the university diploma. And the revelation for me was the meaning of the word "faculty" - the people who teach in a college or university; the natural ability (hearing, seeing, thinking etc.) I thought it is just a department.
 * Learning for life ** We have been learning since... since the very childhood: how to sit, how to walk, how to read and to write etc. The learning grows with us, becomes more complicated with every year.

Now after reading the articles about scientific research into educational myths or facts I know I have one more reason or even an excuse not to go to bed early. :) I mean the article about "The early bird catches the worm...". As it turned out this proverb is myth. The scientist proves that people who are late-working evening types are more luckily to be more intelligent, they have better mental speed and memory. Yahoo!:) I have good mental speed :D