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Technically, I didn't actually hear this from the teacher but my mom told me about it years later.In elementary school, when they passed out the book order forms my mom would let me choose as many as I wanted. I loved to read! My mom's reasoning:She wanted to encourage me to keep readingBooks were cheap through those school programs! She could keep me in books cheaper by letting me get what I wantedI always read ALL OF THEMAt a parent-teacher conference, my second grade teacher brought up the fact that on the day the books arrived the other kids had maybe two or three books while I had a giant pile. Then she told my mom she was spoiling me! By buying me books.Mom was flabbergasted.

There is a great Ted Talk you might be interested in:Three months is more than enough time to not only experiment with different skills, but to actually learn them to a fair degree. You could conceivably learn around 12 new skills during that time at a lazy pace, or around 24 with the same time commitment as a full-time job (40 hours per week).That said, I would highly recommend the skill of "learning how to learn". Consider it the compound interest of education. Focusing on it this early in life will allow you to learn new things more easily and more fully for the rest of your life!She also has a book (How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra): Barbara Oakley: 9780399165245: Amazon.com: Books) (don't be thrown off by the title; it's literally her Ted Talk in book form), and a free Coursera class (https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn).Along the same lines, did you know that you can train your own memory like any other skill? Imagine how fast you could learn new subjects if you could memorize foreign language vocabulary, the periodic table, or geographical facts instantly with little effort! For that, you'll want to read Amazon.com: Remember Everything You Want and Manage the Rest: Improve Your Memory and Learning, Organize Your Brain, and Effectively Manage Your Knowledge eBook: Helmut Sachs: Kindle StoreandThe Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play.Finally, mental math is a skill that will come in handy for the rest of your life. For this, you'll want to read Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks, Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer (and can generate practice problems at Math Worksheet Generator).With those three skills under your belt, there's really no limit to how far you'll be able to go in your chosen field. Good luck![Edit] As far as actual business-applicable skills go, there are three that have proven to be invaluable in my own life: Photoshop, Excel, and programming. If you can learn those three, you can do anything.

You have some good answers already. Here is a summary of the points I agree with:Universities hire faculty to be researchers, not teachers. Being an outstanding scientist or scholar does not necessarily mean that one is also an effective teacher.Universities do not require (and often don’t even offer) instruction on how to teach. As a result, faculty must seek out resources and try things on their own — while also writing papers and proposals, keeping up with their fields, and putting in time in professional service.Few universities evaluate teaching in a meaningful way. A terrible teacher may or may not get tenure or a raise; a mediocre researcher definitely won’t get either. With that set of incentives, which skillset do you think will get the greater investment of time and attention?Students in university settings are supposed to be active learners, meaning that they should be seeking out information and attempting to master the material on their own. The onus is not on the teacher, but on the student. Unfortunately, many students don’t know how to study effectively.With all that, it is still the case that there are excellent teachers among the faculty at most institutions. Some universities provide resources to help improve classroom instruction, and provides major recognition for the most effective teachers.For example, at Purdue, we have several forms of recognition and advancement of outstanding teaching; here are a few:Teaching Academy - Center for Instructional Excellence - Purdue UniversityTeaching for Tomorrow Fellowship Awards ProgramBook of Great TeachersCharles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching AwardThat doesn’t mean we don’t have some poor teachers, but the university community here — and at many schools — does recognize the importance of good teaching.