Learning Communities: The best investment we can make

Charity Village®NewsWeek: Cover Story: "Learning Communities: The best investment we can make
Louise Chatterton LuchukBy Louise Chatterton Luchuk
October 27, 2008

Economic and political uncertainty top global news headlines these days. Yet, in the midst of the turbulence, David Holtzman, senior knowledge exchange specialist at the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), reminds us that “learning is the most important investment we can make for ourselves, and certainly living in a community that is a learning community is the best investment any community can make. Learning is the only sustainable thing we have. When times are hard, as they seem to be right now, we can’t know what the future holds so it is important to know how to learn and know how to find information.”"