learning lifes ever lasting journey

quotes extraordinary

2007-02-22T14:17:00.000-08:00

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Gandhi

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think - Socrates

Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. - Winston Churchill

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. - Galileo

The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher. - John Holt

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
- Lao-Tzu

What I hear, I forget.
What I see, I remember.
What I do, I understand.
- Kung Fu Tzu

"love something and it's easy to learn." feve

I seem to be in good comepany! yes?

Goverments

2007-02-21T09:28:00.000-08:00

When will they learn? is WAR the only way to solve issues. can't people just believe different things. one government get mad at another for messing with chemical weapons or what not when they are researching there own!then there is religion you have yours , I have mine, he has his why do we have to fight about it! this has gone on for centuries over and over again and no one has learned that all it brings is death. I am not saying I dont support our troops I pray for all of their safety I just think that war is useless. I could understand in times when they conquered countries and that country then became part of theres but that is not how it is anymore!you tell me war what is it good for

learning how funny?

2007-02-20T15:33:00.000-08:00

you know learning is funny, it happens every where all the time and we don't even notice it.
Imagine you are at the mall, and you watch people doing what what ever it is what they may do at the mall you in turn have just learned something.

so many ways to learn, yet we don't even see them! its funny when you really think about it! I mean really you listen to a song, you have just learned, you looked at a poster you have just learned. It weird but true.

hey by reading this you just learned,
Pogo

what does it mean to learn?

2007-02-19T18:52:00.000-08:00

I was reading about forms of learning and such and that got me to thinking what do dictionaries, have to say on the topic. the most popular american dictionary said this.

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source

Main Entry: learn
Pronunciation: 'l&rn
Function: verb
Inflected Form: learned /'l&rnd, 'l&rnt/ also learnt /'l&rnt/; learn·ing
transitive senses
: to acquire (a change in behavior) by learning learn intransitive senses
: to acquire a behavior tendency by learning —learn·er noun

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

this to me seem off the wall, I feel as if they miss what learning completely. to me the word means to draw from ones life experiences , it means to become acquainted to something new not what this book claims it is. yet through out our country this is what are children are being taught.

well I am pogo what do you think learning is?

Learning Lifes Never Ending Journey

2007-02-18T17:16:00.000-08:00

I Have found that in life other than bodily functions only one thing caries on our entire life rather we want it to or not. Learning, You see one learns there entire life, on the most basic of levels. for example, foods yes thats right I said foods. ones taste buds change as there body grows and as cells dye. So as one grows older there taste buds change and so does there taste. so they learn what new foods they like, don't like, and really can't stand. This alone will continue until the day one dies!

So as you can see , learning really is a never ending process on quite possibly ever level of ones life.

I plan on making this a very active blog, telling the readers what I have learned, what I would like to learn, showing others ways they can learn and so on.