Learners are important but I would suggest doing the following. Take the basic learners up to level 3 or so, that will be quick. Then figure out, basically, what you want the character to do. If you want to mine, get some mining skills out of the way (maybe up to a retriever depending on how long you want to wait) and then when you get to the point where you can PLAY the game then go back and finish learners.

There are a lot of various opinions about whether to train them, not to train them, etc. I fived them on my guy but i just liked having them done. Supposedly id have to play for many years in order to benefit from getting all the learners to 5, but im not some power gamer who thinks about things in those terms.

Anyways.