Formal Learning

Well, it's a kind of learning.

It's called Formal Learning, "formal" because it's concerned with the "forms" or structures of things. Information or knowledge is divided into forms to be more easily understood: forms such as Disciplines, Sections, Courses . . .

(hmm. Do courses of a meal make it easier to digest?).

And Students are grouped into forms to make them easier to manage: freshman, sophomore, rows of tables & chairs (like concrete shoveled into forms to harden).

And you know, once shoveled into forms & fed steady courses of information,

people can harden just like concrete.

They can begin to think that learning is the same as the forms of learning, that a boring course or classroom means the experience of learning is boring.

That, though, is a product of habit . . . & the fact that real learning is invisible.

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