The Internet is our version of the Royal Library of Alexandria with its hundreds of thousands of scrolls. We have the extremely good fortune, though, to have all this information at our fingertips, largely free, and available to almost everyone.
We have unlimited choices in what we choose to learn. May it lead us toward being a kinder, smarter, more peaceful species.
More thoughts on learning:
"Still I am learning."
-- Michelangelo, on his death bed
"Learning without reflection is a waste.
Refection without learning is dangerous."
-- Confucius
"Learning is perhaps the only pleasure that might replace increasing consumption as our chosen mode of enriching experience.
Some day, the joy of recognizing a pattern in a leaf or the geological strata in a cliff face might replace the satisfactions of new carpeting or more horsepower in an engine, and the chance to learn in the workplace might seem more valuable than increased purchasing power or a move up the organizational chart."
-- Mary C. Bateson, from Peripheral Vision
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