Pepper said such melees made teams more receptive to learning how to avoid future problems.
A happy child would also be receptive to learning as, it was argued, "research showed that children who are engaged and impassioned are most likely to learn".
"But these guys are getting major league hitters out at 21 or 22, and they're very receptive to learning more.
And the best way to reach them is in school, where they are receptive to learning and where lessons can be reinforced as part of an academic discipline.
Thai immigrants, for example, are more receptive to learning about H.I.V. because the high rate of infection in Thailand has led to relatively open discussion, said Prescott Chow, a program director at the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum, based in San Francisco.
Kids can come to a school that has great teachers, but if they're hungry, poorly clothed or have a bad family situation, they are not receptive to learning that day.
Lisa Israel, a 12-year veteran on the board of the Greenport district who attended the same training session as Ms. Lipman did, said she was receptive to learning more about her fiscal responsibilities, but resented the factors that led to the changes.
Results indicate that the CD ROM offered students a real life understanding of applicable concepts and that students were receptive to learning in online environments which are appropriately designed and constructed.
To try to find out why the young brain is so receptive to learning, Stanford University neuroscientist Erik Knudsen has been studying the ability of owls to locate sounds in space.
Students are often especially receptive to learning how evolution can be used to generate beneficial organisms for biomedicine and biotechnology, a subset of the more general category of "applied evolution" (Bull and Wichman 2001), as well as how evolution can sabotage biomedical interventions (e.g., evolution of antibiotic resistance, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/4/l_104_03.html).org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/4/l_104_03.html
Although the majority of students in our survey seem receptive to learning about evolution, a possible trend at sister secular liberal arts private institutions in Northeastern United States, we must continue assessing how their views evolve with time, particularly now that objections to evolutionary theory reappear with vigor.
