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Life Time Learning
Day 2822 - Blog City
Prompt: In This 21st Century
"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century," said someone named Perelman. Was he right?
What and how do you believe we are now doing here in the 21st century?

If you are not a life long learning, you will be left behind. In our current culture progress means never resting on your laurels. It means self improvement at every turn. It means staying on top of changes.... changes that seem to morph overnight.

Stagnate and you are dead in the water. Shark bait instead of the shark.

Society perpetuates this kind of cultural frenzy. The rat race is what it is.

Working in education it is hard to keep up. We are not just teaching the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. We are told to teach to a curriculum that is constantly changing and one that is overwhelming to get through over the course of 10 months.

Children don't learn like robots, none of us do. Most classrooms are filled with behaviour challenges and children with so much going on in their wee lives that trying to teach a basic lesson is almost impossible. The system is created to teach children who would absorb the lessons like sponges, but there may only be a few children in the classroom like that and with huge class sizes so many children don't get what they need.

But I digress....

Any profession has its own standards to maintain and build upon.

Nothing stays the same.

I would caution that while learning is important, so is taking time to process the changes and let the learning settle in. Don't rush to gorge yourself on New, New, New. Be discerning and don't shortchange yourself. You can't do it all or you will burn out and be of no use to anyone.
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