Learning

I think that there are times when I can tell that I have learned from an experience and times where lessons were learned but I may not be able to explain it or know that it actually happened. It is more obvious to know when I have learned from a course because the factual knowledge is more comprehendible compared to life lessons. To know that I have learned a lesson, I look at the evidence from similar occurrences that happened post the event where a lesson was learned. In a simple example, after making plans with a friend and her bailing on me twice, I learned to not make plans with her again unless it’s more of a last minute thing. I do not think that it matters what type of learning is occurring as long as leaning does occur in an experience. I feel that on a basic level most of the lessons I learn from experiences in life do not alter my world view. I always learn something, but the lessons are more of something that would carry me through the next similar experience, not something that would completely change my world view. I have only had one experience that I thought would change my worldly view. I went to a Christian church cam in the mountains for a week over the summer and it made me have more of a religious outlook on life and that it made me think that I need to be a better person and give more back to society that I am taking; the feeling lasted for a little while after I left camp; however, after being back at home and getting back into my regular routine of working and being with my friends, who had not been at the camp, I soon went back to the same mindset that I always have had before I left for camp. I have been to this camp four times and have had the same experience every time. I do not know what it would take to make all of those new outlooks stick for me, but I know that it would have to be a lot of determination which I did not have at the times.

I think that similar experiences help me connect to my peer a lot better because it gives a common ground to base conversations on; however, I think it is a lot harder to relate to teachers on that same level because I think of them more as my superiors and not my equals so I do not necessarily feel that it is a good thing to relate to my teachers on personal of a level. I think that everyone learns in a different way and some people may be able to relate to each other better because of that common ground and for other it may be more difficult. I do not judge the way other people learn and I feel that others do not judge me, mostly. The evidence of learning can defiantly be communicated outside of class just as well as inside class to me. To the only difference is being in a classroom setting.