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How can it be? Howcan I be this many years into life, and marriage, and friendship, andparenthood, how did I make it all the way through high school biology,trigonometry, and AP English to the hallowed halls of my lovely university, andstill come out on the other side just beginning to learn?
If you glanced around my house right now, here’s some ofwhat you’d see: Buy-ology, from the library, on my kitchen counter; dog-earedcopies of Blue Nights and Unaccustomed Earth proudly taking the top spot on thepile of books beside my bed; Sunday’s paper, still unread, resting onedge of the kitchen table. So there’sthat. The book learning.
But there’s so much more. There’s the thinking, the wondering, the understanding—or wantingto. There’s the nuance and the subtletythat I sometimes miss, and sometimes can’t avoid. It’s the whys and the hows that trip me up,that call to me, that keep me coming back, reaching, grasping for more.
I could’ve stayed in school forever, maybe. For the book learning, yes. But more for the thinking, the lengthydiscussions with others, the swirling of ideas, the ‘discovering’ ancient ideasthat are new again, the contemplation: why are these ideas back again, or not.
I have so much more to learn.
all of what you just wrote is why I have loved homeschooling and teaching Sunday school. I just love the idea of forever enriching my brain and there is no greater way to do it than to learn along=side a child. The way they look at things, twist it around, examine it… it makes me see it in a different light every time.
LOVE that!
My Just Write post:
http://whosays8isenough.org/2011/11/21/what-infidelity-does-to-a-woman/
So so true! It seems like I am learning more every day, especially lately as I am opening myself up more to new experiences. Have a good week!!
I feel exactly the same way. Like the learning–true learning–is really just beginning. And yet I'm expected to teach and show my kids the world, as if I already know! 🙂
I'm counting on a long life for lots more learning. Book learning. Life learning.
It's nice to know I'm in good company!
Debi-I agree that we learn more when we teach or learn along with others!
Laura & Sarah–it's all a journey, right?