Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.
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I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.
I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.
I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.
I talk often about being intrinsically motivated by learning. It's the primary driver of most of my activity.
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