Seth Godin brings up this point in his blog post education at the crossroads. He writes:
School was the big thing for a long time. School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is ‘getting it’. It’s the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning doesn’t care about workbooks or long checklists.
Now, you [or your parents along with you] have worked really hard to get you to college. What you need to understand is once you are there, you now have to do the work to ‘get the learning’.
You are the one who will have to:
- crack open the book,
- explore the material until you experience your own ‘A-ha moments’ in ‘getting it’,
- then you will need to figure out a way to apply your newly learned knowledge to your own every-day-life,
- and then you will do it again and again….everyday. Oh, and BTW you’ll be doing this with all your classes.
Learning is the everything about your college education.
