- A boy scout gets home at the end of the day and says to his mother:
“Wow, but I had a hard job doing my good deed today.”
Mother: “Why was that?”
Scout replies: “I helped a blind man to cross the road.”
Mother: “But why was that so difficult?”
Scout: “Because he did not want to go.”
Learning is one of the most important activities in which humans engage. It is at the core of the educational process. For many years, philosophers and psychologists have sought to understand the nature of learning, how it occurs, and how one person can influence the learning of another person through teaching, educating, facilitating, call it what you will. Adult learners are different to other learners. An adult has responsibility, experience, and wisdom…..all of which needs to be considered when preparing a training session. Many theories of learning have been suggested, and these differ for a variety of reasons. Most current theories of learning presume that the goal of education is to develop the ability of learners to understand the content and to think for themselves, presumptions that are consistent with the majority of modern-day training trends. What many institutions and providers of Education and Training forget is the will of the learner. Learners have to want to learn. Nothing can help the person who does not want to learn. But nothing can stop the person who really wants it. A fabulous illustration of this is the boy scout story: