Friday, July 18, 2008
Thoughts on Learning from the grad student Mom
Did you know that theories of human learning date back to Plato and Aristotle? Plato believed in the world of ideas, that learning takes place through abstract representation, and Aristotle believed that all learning originated in the concrete senses. This is of course oversimplistic, but I found it interesting. These two views have shaped the various theories of learning ever since, right up to the present day. Do you ever think about how it is that you learn something, and how this changes over the years? Fascinating stuff.
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I'm going to be maddeningly philosophic and say that there is a lot of truth in both theories, though I tend to side with Aristotle, like I do on most things.
Plato is a bit more mystical but he is a lot more true than most people think he is.
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