well learning skills can still take a long time to do depending on the skill itself. but you can learn the "learning" skills which will decrease the time other skills take to learn sometimes by a significant amount. Best advice is to get EVEHQ and put characters in there and setup a Queue it will have a button to click on it that tells you what learning skills to learn and in what order to get the fastest times possible. also with neural remaps you can tailor your attributes to increase skills learning as well once per year for toons already made, new toons get 1 bonus remap when they start. as for further info it would get really techincal and overly complicated for now. if you do start playing again look me up and ill help if i can. In game name is Captian BrewSir.

hope i helped a little.