Theory of learning

Abstract

Learning is a life‐long process; if we use our experience correctly we cannot avoid learning from it. But “20 years' experience” may merely mean the same year's experience repeated twenty times over. Learning involves all our senses, including our emotions. Some people learn better by seeing or hearing for themselves, others by thinking about what they have experienced; may prefer to learn by reading about other people's experience and from the theories and concepts that others have developed. Some, like the scientist, learn by carrying our experiments (which may be carefully planned, or merely trial and error) to see whether certain hypotheses can be “proved” to their satisfaction. We all have our own preferred styles of learning, ie we over‐use certain ways and consequently under‐use others. A complete learning experience uses all these methods.

Citation

Page, D. (1977), "Theory of learning", Education + Training, Vol. 19 No. 5, pp. 132-132. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016513