The fruits of learning: you'll never cease to grow and blossom

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2012
The fruits of learning: you'll never cease to grow and blossom

An English proverb suggests that learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others. Learning is derived from "educare" - the act of leading or drawing out, questioning while seeking answers. Learning, earning and yearning represent three

 

If you develop a genuine passion for learning, you’ll never cease to grow, to bud and to blossom. An invitation into the love of learning nurtures finding out what you already know or think you know and determining what you still want, desire and need to know, broadening macroscopic perspectives. Learning isn’t compulsory. Neither is survival.
In our fast-forward, interconnected IT world, purposeful e-learning involves gaining practical knowledge access to acquired computer and Internet skills – researching, evaluating and applying state-of-the-art “e” resources: exploring, eyeballing, experiencing, experimenting, enacting, edifying, energising, enlightening, enabling others, expanding perspectives.
A Chinese proverb stresses the excitement of learning as a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere, reinforcing the importance of constantly keeping learning, unlearning and relearning, hearing and applying, then forgetting and remembering again, while enjoying the challenge to tolerate uncertain ambiguity.
Charles Frederickson
Bangkok