What I’ve Learned.
Pedagogy - The ‘Art’ and ‘Science’ of Education, is often overlooked in conversations about what it means to truly ‘teach’ and ‘learn’. These oft-referred dichotomies intersect and find balance between the science of cognition and the intriguing field of aesthetics. To discover what we do when we learn and teach each other, it’s important not to understate the elegance of these processes. What’s most amazing about our species and how we leverage our understandings of various pedagogies, is that we tend to over complicate the manner of teaching and learning. We forget that we are literally wired to learn - we just have to get out of our own way and let curiosity become our curriculum.
True learning comes from within.
If you have ever been so engaged in something that you’ve lost track of time, you can be sure that experience has spoken to your core. These spine tingling moments are what we remember the most and literally and physically become you, as they reinforce themselves as memories, becoming some of the strongest structures in your neurological architecture. Fortified for future reference, regardless of personal preference.
Projects are what life looks like.
Life, as they say, is a journey. The steps you take along the way become moments of education that narrate your life story. Each and every moment, person, place or thing you stumbled upon, became the scenes in your life’s unique projection. What’s really incredible is that, when you look back on how everything played out, each experience was an iteration on your own personal project. The project of life is what we call living.
Play is an ancient learning heuristic.
Play is not just the past time of children - It’s the software of our species. The Play circuits in our brains have been used in every painstaking instance of our development as human beings and will forever. Play takes advantage of the delicate interactivity between our endocrine system, our senses and our capacity for critical analysis. All work and no play makes Homo Sapiens a dull and underdeveloped human being.