Sentence examples for a hub of learning from inspiring English sources

Chinguetti – said locally to be the seventh most holy city of Islam – became a hub of learning and a meeting place for pilgrims travelling to Mecca.

In its heyday Timbuktu was a hub of learning that grew rich on duties from the trans-Saharan trade in gold, ivory, salt and slaves.

I was interested in what a museum such as the Met or the British Museum means, as a hub of learning, a world of wonder, a tourist magnet, a tool of cultural diplomacy, a site of pilgrimage, a place to take the kids on a wet bank holiday.

In the 1990s, the Rockefellers began incubating a working farm to practice resiliency and transparency - a farm that would be open to the public as a hub of learning, creativity and experimentation.

Carolyn Shaw, learning commons leader at the school, says: "We have a big drive on books and reading for pleasure but we see ourselves very much as being the hub of learning in the school".

It is the hub of learning.

The ideal undergraduate biology classroom is a hub of active learning in which students engage in the investigative process of scientific research rather than memorizing facts (National Research Council, 2003; Handelsman et al., 2004; Labov et al., 2009; American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011).

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The school founded by Horapollo, where after Hermeias joined it the two main courses of study were rhetoric and philosophy, was a hub of the 'Hellenic' pagan learning, religion and culture.

It was a hub of community life, so all of us learned how to deal with a wider range of people from an early age.

Yet it is still a hub of contradictions.