I was now following the Dart Valley Trail, soon entering land held by the Raleigh Estate, granted to the old seafarer who learnt to sail, I read, in the surrounding waters.
The class of 82 had all directed films before – maybe not always great ones, but films that granted the opportunity to learn, to see what worked and what didn't.
The unjustified arrests and military operations must come to an end and Turkey's Kurds, after decades of struggle, must be granted the right to learn and pray in our own language and exercise self-government in our cities and towns.
It may take over two weeks for the grant writer to learn your organization, its functions and its needs.
Parnell can throw a baseball 100 miles an hour, a gift that has granted him the chance to learn how to close games for the Mets.
Frank Mayadas, program director for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which awards grants to colleges developing online learning, says many students learn better when they can review lessons and engage the material online, especially if they are intimidated by classroom participation.
"When arts organizations lose a grant, they have to learn to either reduce their budgets or have developed other sources of funding," said Michael M. Kaiser, the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, whose DeVos Institute of Arts Management has helped train grantees in areas like strategic planning, fund-raising and financial management.
Middle-class people often take the ability to learn for granted, as if it were natural, rather than an acquired skill.
In later years, when Alice was producing programs for educational television, she'd occasionally take an unusual teaching job — at Phoenix House, the drug-treatment program, for a while, and for one semester at Sing Sing — and she always took it for granted that people who wanted to learn could be taught, no matter what their background.
PBS has two other new literacy-promoting programs this fall, "Word World" and "Super Why!," both aimed at preschoolers and both recipients of Ready to Learn grants from the federal Education Department.
