It means teaching progressively rather than sequentially, which helps learners understand better and more clearly over time.

The first year of college is a tough transition, and for many students, a disillusioning one.

So the questions are usually very specific but, obviously, questions about which reasonable people can disagree – and about which I can expect disagreement in the class – and which require the giving of reasons.

And of this development, social history was the prime beneficiary. But now retrenchment is upon us; in history as in everything else, amalgamation and rationalisation are in the ascendant; and there are fears that social history, having gained most in the era of expansion, will now suffer most in the age of austerity.

Skills are vital, of course. One cannot do history or chemistry or carpentry without them. They must be learned.

hey discovered that the time lost while the brain continually reorients itself during the stop-and-go process increases with the complexity and relative unfamiliarity of the tasks, and takes longer when the switching period is extended over a longer time period. In short, multitasking proves less efficient than performing the same tasks one at a time.