Sentence examples for useless learning from inspiring English sources
Ian Nash is a freelance journalist, editor of the book Seriously Useless Learning, based on the collected writings of Alan Tuckett, former director of Niace, and author of Overcoming Social Exclusion through Adult Learning, commissioned by the OECD.
Ian Nash, former assistant editor at the Times Educational Supplement, quotes Boswell in Seriously Useless Learning, a recently published tribute to Tuckett's work, which includes a selection of the regular columns he wrote for the TES.
If I had a quibble with lean techniques it is with the extreme perspective that some practitioners take that research and thinking are useless — that learning comes only from developing prototypes and testing in-market.
It feels both impossible and useless to learn if everything is wrong.
The most useless was probably learning to scuba dive [for After the Sunset], because I absolutely hated it.
The circularity of this was made explicit in the summary statement by 'Sophia', who had borrowed many of Poulain's arguments: 'Why is learning useless to us?
Too many of the city's youth, especially among young men living in poverty, come to view educational achievement with skepticism if not outright hostility, believing that the ongoing prevalence of racism just beneath the surface pleasantries will make any investment in learning useless.
But to deduce from this that screens are not only useless as learning tools but actually harmful seems a stretch.
This might be the most critical aspect of industrial IoT because gathering all the data from millions or billions of sensors is useless without insights and learning.
The Mass was said in English (rendering useless my carefully learned Latin prayers).
Students build a "useless box" and learn about circuits, feedback, and programming hardware, a light display for your desk and bike and learn about coding, transforms, and LEDs, a solar charger and an EKG machine and learn about power, noise, feedback, more circuits, and safety.
