Learning

          I think that learning is sometimes mysterious and difficult to express and quantify. I like to believe that if one is  open to more ways of learning, the more one will learn and the more the people around him  will learn from him.

         Learning is both individual and collective. Personally, I believe that individuals have to take responsibility for their own learning and development. But society and state also have a huge role to play. This is especially in contexts where individuals come from underprivileged background. Quite often socio-economic inequality plays an instrumental role in determining possibilities for learning for individuals.

         

          I agree that we, as state and society, have roles to play. The individual has to learn, but no one knows instinctively what there is to learn. An individual's interests are necessarily limited by his experience and it is up to us ( teachers- parents-supervisors) to provide sufficient experience. 

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          Personally, I believed that learning can be most acquired by experiences alone. But I realized learning has something to do with different forms of societal involvement. We can learn from different people, from different places, not only with their thoughts and ideas, but also with the truth of living and learning life itself. 

Our institutions do not provide us sufficient materials to learn, no training, no professional development.   But we need to have an interest of learning first so we can really get learn. If one wants to learn, he will.

          Learning happens on so many levels, and in different situations with different objectives, materials, or ideas that spontaneously present themselves, we have somewhat of an innate capacity to adjust. 

These are my perceptions of learning. 

         Learning is so multi-faceted and is also context-dependent. Learning is characterized by complexity. This complexity is more complex in Egypt, a hard place to live, learn and educate,