What is the philosophy of learning and does it change with age?

Answer 1

In brief (lol) - As children we give equal importance to al the data we receive.

Learning can be from any sense source, but we are slowly 'taught' to learn exclusively with our ears, and we develop a language, despite the fact that 90% of communication is visual - body language.

Just when the child has got over the fact that it has to learn by audio means, we throw it back into confusion, by introducing a written (visual) code, which has to be learned.

The majority of children will have a nano-cortex (brain) divided into two halves, and store this info from the central mammalian brain (short-term memory).

Sleep allows the brain to refresh these memories, and sort out chemical links so we learn to relate certain things to others, and thus learn.

Some children will have breaks in the chemical chains, or have divided their brain before birth into more sections (dyslexia) so they may find the established methods of acquiring data a little difficult at first.

At about 11 years, the cranium joints in the protective bones of our skull fuse together, and we free to then go on to develop the inside functions. This results in the development of abstract thought.

It can be simplified to this

1. Unconsciously unaware don't know, and you don't know it.
2. Consciously unaware, don't know, but you realise that you don't know.
3. Unconsciously aware. You do know, but have not realised it.
4. Consciously aware. You know, and you realise this.

At the end of your life, the chemical links you have built up over a lifetime start to decay, and you find it harder to recall the bits you haven't used for some time.

Some people like Gardiner, theorised that we learn in spirals, building up on the last information, by revisiting it.

Briggs Mayer identified that we like to learn in one of four preferred styles, or combinations of them, and thus learn best when taught in a style that suits us.

Look at teaching books in the library - pedagogic (children), and androgogic (adults)

Answer 2

There are many different philosophies of learning, but through my learning experiences, I have found that the socratic method has work best. I doubt that this could change with age too.

Answer 3

Yes. And the nice part is, as we learn and our age increases so does our level of understanding. Ain't that nice?

Answer 4

“that the aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education” and “that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth."