Learning about Learning

This is chock-full of interesting insights into how people learn.

Check it out.

I want to talk about learning. But not the lifeless, sterile, futile, quickly forgotten stuff that is crammed in to the mind of the poor helpless individual tied into his seat by ironclad bonds  of conformity! I am talking about LEARNING - the insatiable curiosity that drives the adolescent boy to absorb everything he can see or hear or read about gasoline engines in order to improve the efficiency and speed of his 'cruiser'. I am talking about the student who says, "I am discovering, drawing in from the outside, and making that which is drawn in a real part of me." I am talking about any learning in which the experience of the learner progresses along this line: "No, no, that's not what I want"; "Wait! This is closer to what I am interested in, what I need"; "Ah, here it is! Now I'm grasping and comprehending what I need and what I want to know!" Carl Rogers 1983: 18-19

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How do YOU learn?

Pilgrim's Progress

Natalie asked everyone to take a look The Pilgrim's Progress to get a feel for the language and story -

Here's the Wikipedia link for a summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim's_Progress

and here you can take a look at the actual text, in one of several different formats: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bunyan/pilgrim.html



On the left is a fairly typical type of illustration. You could also envision the allegorical tale of a Christian (called 'Christian', creatively enough) journeying through the world in this way:

Like I always say: If there aren't swords, why bother?