Passion for learning LO9148

NEANY@aol.com
Thu, 15 Aug 1996 11:52:40 -0400

Replying to LO9098 --

As I read what Walter D wrote:

>As I'm marking final exams for a college course that I teach, I couldn't
>help reflect on the students who felt a genuine interest for the material
>and others who were just going >through the motions.

I reacted with a little pop up out my seat. As a college student of th
late 60's I was anything but excited around what I was told that I HAD to
learn and all of the TESTING that was going on. I finished college and
did more reading (and hopefully learning) in my first year out of college
than I did during the four years in college. 22 years later I tried
college again!! Grad school. Whole different experience. I was still
hungry to learn and the professors were willing to let me!!

Everyone in the group, including the professors, worked collaboratively
for eight and one half months. TESTING was not what we traditionally find
in classrooms. We all finished the masters degree program and I left
ignited. The passion to learn keeps growing. (That's why I hang out
around LO mailing list)

A long way to the comment about how do you create a passion to learn?
Don't kill the passion!!

For me --- don't you test me to see what I've learned. Work with me so I
can tell what I've learned, so I can deetermine where I am in my learning
and what direction I want my learning to take.

My passion to learn (and I think everyone, yes everyone, has the passion
to learn) will continue to grow unless someone does his/her best to douse
the flame.

One more commet about everyone has the passion and dirve to learn. I have
a five and a half year old. Watching him learn to roll over at a few
months, crawl, stand, walk, say a word, string several words
together....... learning to read (words, people's expressions, and
moods!!!) his incessant questioning Why's is no different than any other
person at his age and proof that at some time we all demonstrate that
passion to learn. That's why I do not think we need to create passion to
learn in people, but instead allow, facilitate, encourage it to happen.

Joe DiVincenzo
NEANY@aol.com

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