On 16 Dec 99, at 16:26, HJRobles@aol.com wrote:
> Learning is hard to pinpoint. Who can tell what people walk away with
> from this list and when they might have the "aha!" moment that makes a
> comment meaningful and changes they way they think about and do things?
That's probably true to some extent, but my own philosophy regarding
learning is that we can all be, in a sense, teachers, who take on the
responsibility of creating both those aha insights (but one aspect of
learning) and other learning reactions and capabilities.
In my mind, outside of university, and formal institutions where there are
a variety of purposes, my job as a teacher, whether formal or not, is to
create an ability for people to act differently. To behave differently.
So, I find that endless discussion of abstract, high falutin concepts is
not really (on its own) the way practice changes.
Practice and behavior doesn't change just by dropping wise thought on
people hoping they will figure it out. It does happen by "teaching" in a
broad sense.
In MY idea of a learning organization, that would indeed be going on
virtually every minute of the day.
...I wish we saw more teaching, rather than lecturing here.
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