In this 1929 video, 70-year-old philosopher and educator John Dewey brilliantly details his advice on self-education. Nearly 100 years later, his ideas are just as timely...
Dewey's core idea is simple:
Motivation is the key that unlocks the treasure chest of education. Without it, all one has is an ornate, yet empty, box.
Why It Resonated
I've spent the last 6 years deeply studying the skill of learning how to learn in order to learn better myself and then teach others to do the same.
If I had to nurture one thing in order to increase learning, I would focus on lighting the flame of people's passion to learn. That passion leads to more time spent learning, which leads to a desire to learn faster, which then leads to learning the mechanics of learning how to learn.
Each incremental increase in the intensity and duration of passion has a reverberating impact across our entire life.
With that context...
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