I seem to remember that "learn" was originally the root word for what we now define as "teach" and that there was some connection in those early words with "lore", as in folklore, as in storytelling. You "learned" something by telling about it - in a sense, the "learn" aspect was in the passing of information from one person to the other, with the learning being done by the one who held the knowledge and thus who passed it on. It kind of fits the old adage that you never know what you really know until you try to tell it to someone else. I imagine the one receiving the learning as one who journeys through a landscape that is being posited by the one who is presenting learning - establishing the space within which one begins to move, explore, discover.
It can also be thought to be about letting go. It's a bit like "stuff". So many people have a tendency to collect stuff, yet there are those who seem to always be giving stuff away. In the Finnair magazine on the plane, Arja Suominen's editorial was about (excuse my crude paraphrasing) how many people remember having experiences more than they remember possessing things. Is the stuff of life what we move ourselves through, experience and share for others to experience?
It's like love. What is it? If you want to collect it, what do you have? It's only in giving it away that it seems to begin to develop a sense of developing some sense of substance however tenuously sensed. It cannot remain static, like the firing of synapses in our brain that create ideas - if they stopped, there would be no thought. It's like the idea of how our bodies are in a constant state of turmoil and chaos, battling viruses and all sorts of firefighting drills if only because the body needs to keep in constant motion, in a sense, sharing its vitality across many different levels of interaction if only to effect an ongoingness of a flow of energy.
From this perspective, learning and teaching are interwoven aspects of this ongoingness, a dynamic of the passing on and sharing of movement within a landscape of potential. We define that potential, we define that landscape, with the definition being framed by what we are given as fodder for the flame we might call life.
It can also be thought to be about letting go. It's a bit like "stuff". So many people have a tendency to collect stuff, yet there are those who seem to always be giving stuff away. In the Finnair magazine on the plane, Arja Suominen's editorial was about (excuse my crude paraphrasing) how many people remember having experiences more than they remember possessing things. Is the stuff of life what we move ourselves through, experience and share for others to experience?
It's like love. What is it? If you want to collect it, what do you have? It's only in giving it away that it seems to begin to develop a sense of developing some sense of substance however tenuously sensed. It cannot remain static, like the firing of synapses in our brain that create ideas - if they stopped, there would be no thought. It's like the idea of how our bodies are in a constant state of turmoil and chaos, battling viruses and all sorts of firefighting drills if only because the body needs to keep in constant motion, in a sense, sharing its vitality across many different levels of interaction if only to effect an ongoingness of a flow of energy.
From this perspective, learning and teaching are interwoven aspects of this ongoingness, a dynamic of the passing on and sharing of movement within a landscape of potential. We define that potential, we define that landscape, with the definition being framed by what we are given as fodder for the flame we might call life.
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