What if what we were told about learning is wrong? What if our education systems, the training we propose and/or facilitate are based on wrong information?
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involved me and I learn.” - Benjamin Franklin
Learning happens with doing. Yet, the educational model in many educational institutions from kindergarten through graduate degrees, including adult training programs, are based on: listening, looking, responding. Where is the doing, the involvement and the engagement necessary for learning to happen?
“We Learn . . . by William Glasser
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we see and hear
70% of what we discuss
80% of what we experience
95% of what we teach others.”
I’ve never let my school interfere with my education.-Mark Twain
Learning for me is an experience that supports sense of responsibility, stewardship, and awareness to make choices that align with our values; a place where to broaden our sense of the world and where failing is necessary. A school (or a educational program) needs to be and become a space for possibility and progress as humankind.
Progress is only possible when we embrace the role of being lifelong learners.
Being a lifelong learner comes from inquiry not from providing (or knowing) answers. The emphasis is on exploring and experimenting in ways that allow participation so we can learn.
Arts and their metaphors transform not just what we learn, but how we learn. The arts are about being fully alive, in the moment, where all our senses are enlivened and working creating learning experiences that are relevant, meaningful and enjoyable. Thanks to the arts we access a participatory dialogue where co-creation of practices, processes and tools support our learning.
My question to you is, "What kind of learning do you want?"
I want to create and participate to learnings that go beyond book and theory teaching by an expert. An educational model that explores and experiments, that accounts for a more human focus (rather than obsessively interested in assembly line performance), where there is an equal partnership between rational/emotional; intuitive/deductive; creative/logic and, where there is an emphasis on the progress of being a whole human.
True learning is connective and imaginative.
When we are disconnected from our imagination we are disconnected from learning too. We have mastered problem solving quite efficiently in our society driven by performance. We are taught how to fit in but not how to relate and create. Learning and healing require relating and creating (I have written here about it).
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