Theme of Discussion Zoom Meeting: Learning

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Questions:

1. As we grow older, what are the answers we are most interested in learning?

2. As we grow older, does our capacity to learn decrease or increase?

3. Why do so many older people find it harder to learn new things?

4. Why might some older people remain super learners?

5. What is self-knowledge? How do we gain it?

6. What are good, free sources for learning about the questions that most concern us?

7. What animals are especially good learners?

8. How have our sources of learning changed since we were youngsters? Might there be a challenge in determining how reliable these sources are for learning what is true?

9. How can we help children learn by their mistakes?

10. Can and should children be taught how to learn?

11. What person encouraged you to do the most learning when you were a youngster? How did this person encourage you?

12. Are there cultural differences in learning styles?

13. Do males and females learn differently?

14. Why do you think it might be a good idea to write down each day something you learned that helped to make the day worthwhile?

15. Consider a group you belong to – perhaps a religious congregation, a political club, a volunteer organization. To make any group function well together, what must all the members learn in common?

Quotations:

1. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

2. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -- Benjamin Franklin

4. “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.” Galileo Galilei

5. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”― John F. Kennedy

6. “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”― Pablo Picasso

7. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”― Henry Ford

8. ‘It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.’ –Claude Bernard

9. ‘You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.’ –Lyndon B. Johnson

10. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.’ –Richard Branson

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