“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
(Henry Ford)
When we are children there are good evolutionary reasons for being credulous but when we attain adulthood we begin to come to our own conclusions about life. And we should take full advantage of our innate capability to experience, to reason and to develop our knowledge in a way that shapes our values and stimulates our minds. And as we get older we will know that it was time well spent. Because of lifelong learning we may become old of body but we will be young of mind.
When we stop learning, we stagnate. And since nothing in life is stagnate, that mean we are actually moving backward rather than forward.
ReplyDeleteI love to learn new things, but it seems to ebb and flow with me. I will go in spurts of reading a variety of books (not all fiction) and then it will shift to some other hobby. Until eventually surging again.
ReplyDeleteIf it weren't so expensive, I'd enjoy going to school to learn anything/everything I could.
I'm sure I can find a lot of things online, but I've always been one to learn best from observation/hands-on.
Jak, Alex,
ReplyDeleteThanks again for your input and comments. It's great to hear your views. What did we ever do before the Internet?
I cried myself to sle... wait, I still do that. I maybe masturbated a lot less? lol sorry about the crude joke, but it seemed really funny in my head!
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Yes, it's good for you I'm told!!!.... The Internet that is ;)
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