Most textbooks and schools do the opposite, concentrating or "blocking" lessons to drive home skills by having students practice one at a time, over and over.
I try to listen to that lesson by continuing to drive up to the retreat house regularly, stepping out of my life in order to put things in perspective, solving knotty problems by directing my gaze at something else.
The Mobileye engineers proceeded to give me a rapid-fire lesson on how to drive their robot car: Turn on the automatic navigation by pressing the cruise-control button and then pulling a stick on the steering wheel toward you to activate the "lane-keeping," or steering, feature.
Intel need look only as far as Microsoft for a hard lesson about trying to drive your brand name into unfamiliar territory.
Intel need only look as far as its soul mate, Microsoft, for a hard lesson about trying to drive your brand name into unfamiliar territory.
Recently, I discovered that the Battery Park City Ice Rink in downtown Manhattan offered lessons on how to drive a Zamboni.
Sure, most people would never actually get around to playing through too many lessons (after all, learning how to play an instrument takes some hard work), but the knowledge that they could work through those lessons would be enough to drive even more computer sales.
For example, in a spot on "the physics of traffic" I did some simple calculations to drive home the lesson that reckless driving seldom gets you there faster (sorry for the play on words!), and to illustrate some sobering aspects of the physics of car crashes.
To drive the lesson home, that very month Congress repassed a clean water bill that Mr. Reagan had pocket-vetoed in 1986, and then overrode his new veto.
"I feel like my childhood formed my character," she said, describing "seemingly hopeless situations" in which the family could not pay for the gasoline that would be needed to drive to lessons or she did not know whether scholarship money would come through.
