"There's a tremendous amount of learning in the early years.
"Muhammad would spend all day in the gym, watching and learning in the early days," adds Dundee.
More local language books are needed: Access to reading and other materials in mother-tongue languages has had a significant impact on learning in the early grades.
Fatherhood made him start writing prose seriously in an effort to support his family, and after learning in the early 90s that he had a problem with his liver, he holed up in his home on the Costa Brava and started turning out books at an extraordinary rate.
Evidence is plentiful that when children are healthy and well-supported in learning in the early years and beyond, they achieve and graduate at higher rates.
Young children have the capability of and are competent in asking questions and making predictions cognitive skills that set the stage for formal science learning in the early elementary grades (e.g., Kuhn and Pearsall, 2000; Opfer and Siegler, 2004).
All she knew of the outdoors, she'd learned in the early days with him, after that fateful meeting during a film shooting in Provence: the Greek actress and the German sound man.
The idea is that the lessons learned in the earlier verticals will stack and make impact greater and easier in later ones.
The lessons learned in the early part of the 20th century, and the institutions created to deal with the fundamental market failures and information frictions the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Securities and Exchange Commission–led to a long period of relative tranquility in banking.
She publishes a "culture book" every year for employees, one of several tricks she learned in the early days from monthly meetings with friend and mentor, Nick Swinmurn, founder of Zappos, the world's leading online shoe retailer.
