I was still a tot when I asked my mother the first question she couldn\u2019t answer.\u00a0 She sent me to the Library where I discovered the wonder of independent study and learning.<\/p>\n
Years after, when the President of a regional University asked me to articulate how I felt about education, I wrote:<\/p>\n
The key to a vital life is an eagerness to learn and a willingness to change.<\/p>\n
LEARNING is meaningful to me.<\/p>\n
Learning ways to DO a thing and learning how NOT to do a thing.<\/p>\n
Learning by observation.\u00a0 Learning by overlay (if it worked on this<\/em> maybe it will work on that<\/em>).<\/p>\n Learning by experimentation.\u00a0 Learning by doing.\u00a0 Learning by throwing things up in the air and watching how and where they land.<\/p>\n Learning by reading. And reading.\u00a0 And reading.<\/p>\n Learning by listening to and watching others.\u00a0 Strangers. Friends. Neighbors.\u00a0 News. Celebrity. Flowers in the field. Birds in the sky.\u00a0 Voices of long held cultural knowledge.<\/p>\n Learning by asking, Who? Why? How? When? Why Not?<\/p>\n Learning by sitting still and watching what happens when I do nothing.<\/p>\n Learning by prayer.\u00a0 Praying in paint, poetry, proses and poses.\u00a0 Praying and learning all the names for holy that I might hear.<\/p>\n Learning that I am my own best source of knowing and learning:\u00a0 that I can recognize a void and learn to fill it.\u00a0 That I can see certain abundance and learn how to share it.<\/p>\n Learning by opening my heart and my journal at the same time and seeing what my hand while holding a pen, wants to teach me.<\/p>\n Learning is representative of the most dynamic elements of my life.\u00a0 When I am learning I am least resistant to change and most open to the \u201cimpossible.\u201d<\/p>\n When I am learning I\u2019m not so caught up in \u201ceverything I know,\u201d and \u201cdoing things right.\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019ve learned to use the word \u201cyet\u201d as often as possible.\u00a0 As in saying, \u201cI don\u2019t know how to do that YET.\u201d<\/p>\n Learning is full of wonder, possibility and opportunity. When I learn something of specific use \u2013 I share it with people who might benefit or have demonstrated interest.\u00a0 Keeps the learning cycle rolling.<\/p>\n Each day I intend to know more at the end of the day than I did when I started.\u00a0 Failed expectations of a day are balanced by the presence of learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was still a tot when I asked my mother the first question she couldn\u2019t answer.\u00a0 She sent me to the Library where I discovered the wonder of independent study and learning. Years after, when the President of a regional University asked me to articulate how I felt about education, I wrote: The key to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-joys"],"yoast_head":"\n