What does "Lifelong Learning" mean to you?

Question

I'm interested to know what you understand by the term "Lifelong Learning" and whether you feel it's important to you personally.

Imagine there's a great course at the local college or Adult Ed that would help in your career. What would stop you from doing it?

Answer 1

I'm 71 and I learn something every single day. I have continued my education all through the years. I have a husband that has done so too. He is at the moment enrolled in a computer class.

We have taken classes at our state university and received certificates in many areas.

We even took wood working classes through adult education and built a awesome desk and other furniture.

At our age we aren't afraid of the computer and have many different software program that we like to learn.

Keep dictionary's on hand. Learn the meanings of new words nearly everyday.

I'm retired and don't need to work on my career any longer but I'm not satisfied if I don't have something to challenge me.

I think it's the reason I wake up everyday and can say I love life.

Answer 2

Adopting Lifelong Learning

Answer 3

The philosophy of Life Long Learning is now embraced by many progressive employers, in recognition of the fact that the pace of change is increasing. If the average employee is not willing to learn new skills during their working life, then they will not be as productive as they could be.

Some employers provide excellent work based training, and others provide time off for attending courses which will be relevant to the employee's work. My company actually pay half the cost of courses which they feel they will benefit from in the long run. The only proviso to this is that if you then leave the company within two years of gaining the qualification, you have to repay that money.

In a more personal context, we all learn as we go through life, and to be willing to learn new things makes us more well rounded people.

Answer 4

Life Long Learning to me means just that. That is for the length of ones life one is always learning.

I already attend a life long training course its entitled living!

I guess most people are attending even though some are not learning anything and some are so doped up with drugs that they are incapable of comprehending anything.

I might attend an adult education course at the local college to learn how to live successfully - that is to become self sufficient without needing to rely on any government, utility provider, landlord, employer or colleague.

What would stop me attending would be some one who thinks they can sell without being sincere, or offering a genuine quality workable product, or expecting intelligent people to believe verbage without question.

Answer 5

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What does "Lifelong Learning" mean to you?
I'm interested to know what you understand by the term "Lifelong Learning" and whether you feel it's important to you personally.

Imagine there's a great course at the local college or Adult Ed that would help in your career. What would stop you from doing it?

Answer 6

Hi,

I am a full believer of Lifelong Learning. For me, it is a state of mind when you feel that you must upgrade your skills, knowledge base throughout your life. There is no boundary to acquiring knowledge. Some would like to join a course like Adult Ed whereas some like to engage in self studies. It does not matter either way. What is noble is that your thirst for knowledge is unquenchable.

The factors that may prohibit one from pursuing Lifelong Learning may be varied and it is tied to your socioeconomic status. I am an Asian and frankly speaking the limiting factors for my countrymen are -- lack of funds, societal pressure to stick to a homemaker's role, limited choices of courses, poor infrastructure (lack of well equipped libraries), poor literacy rate, poverty, no access to the internet . I guess you get the picture.

Fortunately, a lot of families today are very progressive in their outlook.

It is extremely important for me. A life without learning is a life half lived. I would do that Adult Ed course.

Answer 7

Lifelong learning just means carrying on learning stuff all the way through life rather than just at school doesnt it?

Answer 8

Lifelong learning just means carrying on learning stuff all the way through life rather than just at school doesnt it?

Answer 9

that you learn something new every day (and are open minded)
not in a college though , its what it stats on the tin "lifelong"

Answer 10

For each person it means differently. But for me it means the knowledge that we gain as we age. Or whatever we had learned still been useful in our daily life.