That is the lesson that General Motors has just learnt, at a cost of €1.55 billion ($2 billion), from Fiat.
Like the rest of Europe, the Dutch have learnt at first hand about the growing danger from Islamic radicalism.
Each rap on the door is perfectly spaced like someone learnt at college how to knock right, what every knock means.
NUCLEAR blackmail is an old trick of Kim Jong Il, North Korea's 68-year-old dictator, learnt at the knee of his father, Kim Il Sung.
Her English, learnt at school, seems effortlessly fluent, though she complains that after a few hours, the strain of enunciating English vowel sounds makes her jaw ache.
The tests - in numeracy, literacy and IT skills - were carried out on 5,000 adults in each participating country and aimed to show how much use adults made of the skills they had learnt at school in the workplace.
Children are incredibly adaptable, money is not necessarily God and interpreters can be acquired while a new language is learnt – at Barcelona the late Sir Bobby Robson attracted a most helpful translator named José Mourinho.
I would like to see more creative homework as a follow-up to what is learnt at school: identifying local trees, collecting rock/leaf/shell samples, baking, modelling etc.
Although this is technically possible, it is not possible from a pedagogical perspective because citizenship and coexistence must be learnt at school.
This is a piece of old cop wisdom my grandfather learnt at the police academy.
The craft of the courtier Robert learnt at the courts of Henry VIII, and especially Edward VI, among whose companions he served.
