The Vital Role of Inefficiency in Learning
How do we define “learning?” Is learning the harvest of a creative endeavor that requires a genuine investment of effort and sacrifice on our part or merely a transactional act focused on how rapidly we can access and ingest information and data? We live in an era where obtaining information has become astonishingly efficient on […]
Learning’s Landscape of Beauty
I love it when an experience puts me into what the great Irish writer, James Joyce, would call a state of “esthetic arrest”—when an experience stops time. I am a teacher by profession but I paradoxically most often find myself in the role of the inquirer, what one might associate more with the student. This learning […]
Learning to Let Your Wonder Wander
Learning is a marvel to me. I never tire of seeing how often my curiosity and sense of wonder are activated by a new experience or encounter. Sometimes I feel there is a modern notion suggesting learning is something that is the exclusive domain of childhood, the purpose of which is to prepare us for […]
Lessons in Learning from Dove Fledglings
Lessons in Learning from Dove Fledglings Recently, I had to run an errand. I was in a bit of a hurry and had a lot of things swirling in my head so in this state of mind, I snatched my keys and stepped out the back door to go to the garage. I pull the […]
