Leonardo and Da Vinci- The Tao of Meta-Learning: What’s in a Name?
“The mass of children lead lives of quiet desperation because rote learning nips their potential in the bud. To nip rote learning itself in the bud before it nips their potential is, therefore, not an option but a categorical imperative.” – Leonardo…
Learning, Unlearning and the Beginner’s Brain-Mind: What Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity Reveal
“…I want you to forget my past environment, behaviour, skills and capabilities, beliefs and values, identity and purpose associated with me as an inventor. I am a beginner in natural philosophy. I have the beginner’s mind free of the burden of past knowledge related directly…
Nurturing the Beginner’s Mind
“…It is a sublime experience to be able to learn like a beginner. And that is true even when I already know something very, very, very well. Yes, even when I have mastered something, there is always something to learn…
How is Human Memory an Oxymoron?
The mind can only perceive and operate with changes. The unchanging is imperceptible by the mind and the only way to perceive it is by changing the mind itself relative to it. Again, this implies that monotony in the presentation of subject…
How Teaching Inhibits and Slows Down Learning from an Exponential to a Linear Process?
“In any mental process there are two kinds of energy involved. The first is that of starting, triggering or awakening the process of learning and the second that of sustaining the process and seeing it through to completion. The main…