Learning is good for the brain.
Other than breath and food, very few things are more important, IMO.
Learning is essential to our development as emerging adults, as humans; it is intrinsic to our survival, and is the basis of our understanding of, and participation in, the world around us. Our ability to learn and reason advanced concepts makes us extraordinary among all species, and is the primary source of our prominence on this planet.
As long as I continue learning, I am further enriched and find ever more appreciation of life.
I love learning - as long as there isn't a test later. My pursuit of learning isn't really organized - more "free range". I will read or hear something and look it up, and that usually leads to something else, and that leads somewhere else.
Dear Nina,
Learning first of all is very enjoyable...and as I get older, it seems more and more possible to assemble what I learn into a kind of understanding that goes beyond the brain.
In other words, learning is valuable because the whole is more than the sum of the parts.
When you stop learning you become stagnant. Stagnant is the first step to dying. I hope to keep learning new things for may years to come.
Today I learned while most of the world's glaciers are shrinking, the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina is still growing.
Those six little questions of yours have been my companions throughout my life. Curiosity is a wonderful teacher, and those are the means of satisfying that curiosity.
Of course, sometimes I irritate people who are on less friendly terms with Who, What, When and their siblings.
I love the unexpected learning that happens when I'm doing a task that I've done hundreds of times. Someone happens by, asks what I'm doing. I explain. They say something like - hey, what happens if you were to do this (whatever this is).
I try it and voila! We both learn something. I don't want to be so sanctimonious that I know everything and no one can teach me anything new.