Place of learning
Questions
1. What is your favorite place to go to learn?
2. How often do you go to the library?
3. Do you think people are using libraries more or less than they did 20 years ago? Why?
4. What is your first memory of school?
5. What’s the most important thing you learnt at school?
6. If you went to school again, what would you do differently?
7. What would you like to study at university?
8. Is it important to go to university?
9. Should university education be free?
Videos
At the New York Public Library, you can call a librarian who will answer any researchable question you might have. The help-line has been around for over 40 years, and to this day it receives more than 30,000 calls a year.
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Need to know the color of an arctic fox’s eyes? Ever wonder if there are full moons every night in Acapulco? Well, if Google isn’t your thing, these librarians have got your answer.
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Category: Education & Language
2,300 years ago, the rulers of Alexandria set out to fulfill a very audacious goal: to collect all the knowledge in the world under one roof. In its prime, the Library of Alexandria housed an unprecedented number of scrolls and
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attracted some of the Greek world’s greatest minds. But by the end of the 5th century CE, it had vanished. Elizabeth Cox details the rise and fall of this great building.
Lesson by Elizabeth Cox, directed by Inna Phillimore.
Lesson by Elizabeth Cox, directed by Inna Phillimore.
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Category: Education & Language | History & Culture
Keywords: Books | Place of learning