LEARNING NEVER ENDS

My activities in the last few weeks have put me in the frame of mind that I have not had in a while. It’s about picking another institutional certificate. For 5 years now, I have been less active in day-day academic schedules, engaging my learning skills only in studying for the few professional examinations and these, mostly because I have had to change my work environment more than once. Of course there is the less regular check on facts here and there owing from the ever-improving virtue that my job imbibes. All of the above-mentioned have been atop the background undergraduate training I had those “many” years ago.


I am back to the class room, to assignments, deadlines, active (and almost -) daily studying, the application of facts, group discussions, fact-proving/presentations. And there is that log book to carry around and fill. All these with a profound web-based learning tool that could make a gizmo enthusiast like me become a real time geek. These thoughts flashed through my head when at a point during my first contact session, the co-ordinating professor asked the class to log in their individual ID, test run our discussion board by posting a piece on the how as post grad student we would combine studying with our regular “daytime” jobs. Then I had to compose another mini essay on myself to be fed into the school’s “who-is-who media library”. Shortly after, I heard one of my tutors advising the class members on the need to develop our individual thesis very early. The jolt couldn’t be more; I am back to school and my verdict- learning never ends (any way).

Here is a paraphrased excerpt from that composition about myself. I believe the best thing about being human is in the possession of a high intellect. Compassion is instinctive and Faith is acquired; both of which are gainfully channelled through a functional mind. I have found much fun and essence in the engagement of my mind, whether it’s observing a coach apply sound tactics to a game, following a brilliant plot in a movie or reading the skill in which a biography is told.

So for me, it’s the interplay of the mind that makes learning fascinating. Formal education does not only stimulate a higher intellectual process but in fact bring order to the intellect and in the end garnish the product of the mind. Yes, the joy of learning is in the use of acquired knowledge for the betterment of life. The formal school life is here again and this “adult education” has begun.



If I have seen any further, it’s by climbing on the shoulders of those who have gone ahead of me.


Extra Thots:

I have read that the latest kid in the techno-block, I Pad is a magnificent addition to Apple’s already witty kit.

The world witnessed in dismay the horrors of the earth quake in Haiti just before I went to school. Our hearts and goodwill go its victims.