Exploring Life is a place to collect thoughts and ideas about the essence of learning. Learning is the energy that inspires what we do in life; to alter the ways in which we learn is to alter our entire orientation to living. In this sense, learning is a fundamental, universal, and essential human capacity. Each of us has an uncertain amount of time here in this world, and it is only by improving our ability to learning that we can better embrace the time that we have.
I have organized the site into five themes: body, mind, spirit, environment, and experience. The purpose of each theme is to provide a lens to explore learning. Why explore learning?
- Learning is a universal phenomenon that defines our experience in life;
- Learning is fundamentally an emergent process that simultaneously embraces our biological heritage, our psychological core, and our socio-cultural reality;
- Learning permeates our identity and narratives about who we are, why we are here, and what we should do;
- Learning animates meaning, purpose and relevance;
- Learning is superior in purpose, quality, capacity, and effect to education or training;
- Learning is unavoidably lifelong and lifewide;
- Learning is not sterile, it embraces all forms of experience, from good through to evil;
- Learning is not about acquiring, it is about being;
- Learning practices a varied and vibrant across culture; no one culture can lay claim to superiority in learning;
- Learning ultimately serves to unify what we know, how we came to know it, and what we actually do in life.
I view a blog as a place to exercise ideas through writing. In this sense, the various blog entries represent loosely connected topics which are intended to reveal a particular perspective about learning. Underlying this is my personal goal of expanding and improving our understanding of the elements and essence of learning itself.
Brian Alger
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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