Philosophy of Learning

My belief in learning is that humans learn from society and they learn to live in the society. I think the true purpose of education is to get along with others and live among those. To achieve purpose of education, people need to be sent off to society. Lecture should not be just making you to memorize thing, it has to motivate you to learn. I believe that whoever is doing is learning. I believe learning is social and should happen in community through investigations, experiments, questions, and conversations.

I believe all of our historical philosophers have gathered their wisdoms from social communities experiencing it. Confucius said “At fifteen, I set my heart on learning. At thirty, I know where I stand, where my character has been formed. At forty, I have no more doubts, at fifty, I know the will of Heaven, at sixty my moral sense is well-developed, at seventy, I follow my heart’s desire without crossing the line.” It took thirty years for Confucius, one of most revered philosopher in the world, to stand with his own philosophy. How long would it take for me?

I would like to begin with ‘What is the meaning of learning?’ Learning needs someone who is willing to learn. Every process of learning aims to change the learner. I say there are changes in different subjects, such as, knowledge, skill, attitudes, and other things. These changes are triggered by learner by himself. Which means learner by his will, provoke and lead process of learning. At same moment he is the ultimate directing point where those changes meet its end.

Second thing we need to thin is purpose of learning. The destination of learning is learner becoming whole person. To achieve it learner needs develop itself over morals, esthetics, spiritual, intellectual, and physical, which is called holistic human development. Getting more knowledge cannot be defined