On Jan 27, 4:19am, sylvie.a.hanes wrote:
> As a self-described perpetual student and Change Management Consultant
> specializing in training development and communication, and most
> important, a parent, I do believe that life-long learning is something
> that is instilled not in high school, but grade school and earlier on.
[...rest of quote of Sylvie's post snipped by your host...]
I tend to diagree on various points:
1) I think that it is a part of human nature to learn continuously. The
problem is to create in an individual more efficient structures, and I
beleive that a lot of schools are not putting this into practice.
2) Because of the above, small children are allways thinking or hoping for
the endo of school, the snow blizzard, on the whole it refers to playing,
which is one of the best strategies to learn...
3) If those games and hollidays become the topic for discussion in a
class, it is very easy to build upon a childs experience to satisfy REAL
needs, making question things that ARE important to him, give him a basis
to construct MEANINGFULL experiences, based on needs that are SIGNIFICANT
to him.
4) In some organizations, things are much the same as in schools: some
very strict rules as to form, but very small posibilities of SHARING in a
mision, to participate in their establishment and defining the criteria to
identify when a goal has been reached. The role of superisors in very
vertical organizations is much the same as that of a teacher in a
traditional school: do as you are told, learn what you are told to learn
because WE say it's important... Changing this into a situation that
allows the individual to "grow into" the organization, enhances the desire
to learn and use what he learns constructively towards his work, which
suddently becomes a way, a road to self fullfilment.
Sorry if this went into the philosophycal, but I don't think that it can
be avoidedwhen talking about human beings. I'd appreciate feedback on
these ideas, I need it to minimize entropy...
Enrique Fuentes O eofuente@campus.mor.itesm.mx
-- "Enrique Fuentes" <eofuente@campus.mor.itesm.mx>