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).