Life-long Learners

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it." - Samuel Johnson (1791)

Life-long learning is the process of acquiring and expanding knowledge, skills, and dispositionsthroughout your life to foster well-being. It's much more than taking an adult pottery class or reading a nonfiction book occasionally.

It's about the decisions you make and the problems you solve in everyday life. From enrolling in unstructured, formal education program to considering whether to believe an infomercial's gimmick, lifelong learning takes many forms.

Life-long learners choose to seek out new ideas and alternative perspectives. They embrace our

changing, dynamic, information-rich society by keeping their senses active and their minds full

of ideas. Much of this learning is self-directed. To be successful, the child or adult must have

basic information inquiry knowledge, skills, and dispositions.

Life-long learning isn't just about emotional well-being. According to medical research, people

with active minds are less likely to suffer Alzheimer's Disease and other ailments.

Life-long learning is about anticipation, exploration, and reflection. Think about your own life.

How has your time been spent? How would you like to spend your time? Each person makes

their own choices and decisions. What will yours be? As parent we need to model the kind of

life we envision for our kids including enthusiasm for life, love of reading, human-kind and life-long learning!