It has occurred to me that there is an ever increasing number of people who excel at being taught, but don’t actually remember how to learn.
When we start out in life, we are very good at learning. We learn about everything we can put our hands on. While it may be disconcerting to a new mother that her baby is putting everything in the mouth, she can console herself with the fact that that child is learning.
Learning is a natural process; being taught in the formal sense is not.
We do not start out our lives sitting in an uncomfortable chair and listening to someone tell us, at length, all the predigested information that we are, ostensibly, supposed to know. We start out exploring the world around us and we learn.
So why is it that if we didn’t start out being taught, we end up that way?
The only conclusion I can come to is that we are in a war of ideas. If each person learned for themselves, the process would be based on the very unpopular thing called truth. This of course would eliminate agendas from the equation. This is why we end up in the unnatural state of being taught.
There was a time when apprentices would learn from the master by watching and participating. Now, all we have is a large number of restless spirits sitting in the classroom wondering why they are there.
If we can get back learning, we can get back a generation.
