Learn How to Learn

The most important skill today is to learn how to learn

When asked about the importance of learning Chinese to compete in a global market, the best-selling author, Thomas Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, said: "It's more important to learn how to learn." CNBC--11/05 (Mr. Friedman's popular book, The World is Flat, is on the Times --seller list.)

Summing it up, the renowned management guru Peter Drucker (who died in November 2005 at the age of 95) stated: "The most important thing, in other words, is not specific skills, but a universal skill--that of using knowledge and its systematic acquisition as the foundation for performance, skill and achievement."
(The Age of Discontinuity, p.321).

Thoughts on Teaching

My Teachers Are My Students!!

* The famous singer Tony Bennett said recently: "My teachers are my audience." (ABC-TV, 12/4/05)

* In a review of the new autobiography by Frank McCourt, Teacher Man, (New York Times, December 4, 2005), the writer said: "He perceived that the best way for his students to learn something was for him to learn something, and the best way to achieve that was to interpret and share his life and hard times."