A Learners’ View Is Of Choices On The Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, The Oxygen Of Social Life.

If learning is not to your liking, change your liking; that’s learning. (ALV T-Shirt Wisdom)

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Theme: There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation. da Vinci (1452-1519), ND.

LEARNING IS INTENSIFIED LIFE, an adventure, a roller coaster of choosing, failing, and choosing repeatedly until succeeding, a broadening of options and choices, sometimes called perspective. It is increasing vocabulary and its relationships with daily choices. Learning provides more options. Some people call it experience, others refer to it as more freedom. Learners remain fanatically positive and optimistic. When they face something they have not changed, they adjust by choosing other options they can use to continue daily life.

In this sense, learning occurs through solving problems that previously restricted choices of the learner. Learning offers recesses from some of those restrictions.

Learning is a matter of priorities. Each person has a limited amount of time to live and few people know how long that is. Learning is a matter of whether to choose to burn your time or to use it to increase a skill that someone will pay you to use or will buy a service or product you have made?

For many people, an indefinite uncommitted future time has built a thick wall between them and what they may accomplish for themselves and others during their life. These people appear to choose to give away their future time rather than to accept current social and economic competition for personal resources around the globe. They fail to see that future time demands their participation in order for it to meet their expectations beyond hard scrabble living hand-to-mouth at the benevolence of others. For whatever reasons, they have chosen social scams and economic traps that lead to membership in an economic wake of a residual population as people not in their wake increasingly enjoy easier lives with more choices.

Over six and a half billion people live on this earth, most of them uneducated in the Western sense of familiarity with choices that learned people have. At the same time, more mobile communication devices with connections around the world, such as smartphones, tablets, etc., exist than people. These devices exist even in the most remote, harshest dictatorial communities, and least densely populated regions. Many seek to engage the world in order to fulfill their dreams, even when that fulfillment challenges someone else’s.

Learning destroys walls between people and their futures. It has many strands that individuals and communities continually weave into a self-renewing tapestry of choices, including interplanetary travel for those who choose to do so, injectable robots to destroy causes of an increasing number of diseases, remote surgery on humans across broad geographic areas, just to name a few.

Wow! Ain’t learning great, even for those who say, “I’m fine” and choose not to change their social patterns, that is, they act like they do not learn more.

References

Da Vinci, L. (c. 1452-1519). Original Source and Date Unknown.

Philosophy of a Learners’ View (ALV) of Learning

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