"Nothing is more relevant to us than ourselves"
Let me narrate the experiential learning I had while I read the introduction and first part of Processing the Experience. I was reading along like normal, I had to re-read a few lines to understand. Then I got to this quote:
"In the experience lies the heartbeat and life potential" and it stood out to me. I felt that experience really has and does and will form who I am and who I become. Awesome. Then the reading went in to a description about learning. This made me flashback to a book I recently read called Siddhartha by Herman Hesse that I REALLY liked. This is the quote that really stuck with me after I finished reading it last month:
"Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose" (Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse).
So what? Clearly, I believe in constructivism. What we read made me think of a lot of past experiences that I have had as I've read, learned, discussed, listened and experimented with learning and Buddhism.
That is my philosophy on education. Learning doesn't mean you have to sit in an uncomfortable chair, take useless notes and accept that the person flipping through the powerpoint slides is smarter than you are. I've learned more on softball teams, in marching band, camping with my family, traveling through Africa and living in Chile than I have in my collective "formal education".
Now what? Let's move closer to Nirvana/experiencing and understanding and becoming more. I've got to keep absorbing. Each day brings millions of new opportunities to add to my constructivism. Seeking is not bad, but finding is much more effective. Allowing myself to experience more will make me a more whole person.
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