Learning

The role of learning in our lives is vastly beyond our common conception.

Everything we think, know, and believe, we learn. Our skills, habits, attitudes, values, and ideals are learned. What aspect of yourself, your family, your culture, your society isn’t shaped, if not determined, by learning?

Perhaps the most underappreciated word in our common vocabulary, the ways we typically define learning profoundly limit the ways we think about educating and parenting:

Learning, noun

The act or experience of one that learns - Knowledge or skill acquired by instruction or study - Modification of a behavioral tendency by experience (as exposure to conditioning)

Learn, verb

transitive verb: To gain knowledge or understanding of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience (learn a trade) – MEMORIZE (learn the lines of a play) - To come to be able (learn to dance) – To come to realize (learned that honesty paid) - To come to know: HEAR (we just learned that he was ill)

intransitive verb: To acquire knowledge or skill or a behavioral tendency

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