{"id":4342,"date":"2009-10-13T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2009\/10\/13\/it-is-never-to-late-to-learn"},"modified":"2009-10-13T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T20:02:00","slug":"it-is-never-to-late-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2009\/10\/13\/it-is-never-to-late-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"It is Never to Late to Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As I said to my students in RPE101, Philosophical and Ethical Arguing (and probably scaring them a little, though that was unintentional), you have to <\/span><\/span>own <\/span><\/span><\/i>your own learning, by which I meant you have to transform yourself from a passive to an active learner.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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Of course this phrase ‘active and passive learner’ is a fine example of gobbledygook (even though it is beloved of our university), but even jargon can hide a kernel of truth. I was reading on the train that morning of an emeritus professor who is still working at the age of 90 (you can read the article <\/span><\/span>here<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> if you want to).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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What inspired me wasn’t his age (though it’s impressive), but how he talked about his experience as a student. He said, <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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“It’s really about whether you want to learn. There’s a fundamental difference between being taught and learning yourself, which is what you’ve got to do to reach a really high standard.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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“Learning for yourself”, well that is what research is, and should’t that be what we teach above all?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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