Sentence examples for dull learning from inspiring English sources

Some activities might simply serve the purpose of breaking up a dull learning event, like telling a joke during a lesson.

People quickly tire of watching a politician explain a complicated idea at length, which drives TV producers and reporters to seek ever more digestible nuggets – and politicians anxious not to be thought dull quickly learn to vomit them up.

Re "Dull Is Beautiful: Learning to Love the Tedium of Murray Hill," by Leslie Eaton (Coping column, Aug. 7): I live in a different Murray Hill.

Mr Gove announced plans to scrap the existing schools ICT curriculum back in January, calling it "demotivating and dull" with pupils learning little more than basic digital literacy skills such as word processing.

The problem is that some people can view it as a little bit self-indulgent and believe learning should be dull and boring".

Khan's piece, given its world premiere by the composer together with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, was sufficiently dull that I learned from a colleague in the interval how many lights hang from the stage canopy.

When they talked about learning, their eyes were flat, their faces dull and devoid of expression.

They make learning superficially easier today, but young learners find it dull and also don't develop the active understandings we really want.

A generation of housewives, thus steeped in putative bliss, had learned to dull their misery with alcohol and tranquilisers.

Facts may be dull and difficult to learn, but they are the building blocks, not just of history, but of morality.

Constantly trying to dull the pain, we learn about his search for death in his darkest times, his drug-induced blackness.