Thursday, October 04, 2007

Charles Handy on ‘Learning’

When I was flipping through the "Age of Unreason" by Charles Handy, I found a piece on 'Learning' very interesting, He says - the theory of learning can be explained in the form of a wheel.
The wheel starts with a set of questions, duly answered, tested and reflected upon, leads on to another.
Learning is, not just knowing the answers, not the same as study, nor the same as training. It is bigger than both. It is a cast of mind, a habit of life, a way of thinking about things, a way of growing.
Learning is not finding out what other people already know, but is solving our own problems for our own purposes, By questioning, thinking and testing until the solution is a new part of our life.