Introduction: Coach Jamie Hale

I know this blog gets a nice mixed reading group so there may be some of you that aren't aware of this man, but you will be now.

I recently have had the pleasure of on going conversation with the Coach and I can say without pause that it has been highly enjoyable and if time allowed he is very well one of those people I would love to just sit around and think with. If you take a look at his site you will figure out what I mean.

Oh did you need a reason too go there?
What about a interview...with me?
Yeah click here you!

PS-His is coming as well.
PSS-Do yourself a favor and grab his new book while you are there, it's greatness but we will talk about that more later.

Oh and one more thing, recently sent to me by the Coach.

Learning
“1) Human beings have a natural potentiality for learning.
2) Significant learning takes place when the subject matter is perceived by the student as having relevance for his own purposes.” Passion for the subject is required to comprehend the concepts.
“3) Learning which involves a change in self organization - in the perception of oneself - is threatening and tends to be resisted.” Humans generally do not like to admit they were wrong and they like daily routine. The logical Fallacy of Cherry Picking often occurs with people that don’t like to see info that challenges their propositions. This is a big problem in Compulsory education as bias and one point of view are almost always promoted.
“4) Those learning which are threatening to the self are more easily perceived and assimilated when external threats are at a minimum.
5) When threats to the self is low, experience can be perceived in differentiated fashion and learning can proceed.” Don’t be afraid to progress and change views. Be concerned with recognition of the truth not saying your right for the sake of being right. Knowledge is tentative.
“6) Much significant learning is acquired through doing.” It is important to have in-the-trenches knowledge.
“7) Learning is facilitated when the student participates responsibly in the learning process.
8) Self-initiated learning which involves the whole person of the learner - feelings as well as intellect - is the most lasting and pervasive.” Self-intitated generally indicates passion. Passion is a key quality in acquiring knowledge and higher learning in any field.
9) Independence, creativity, and self-reliance are all facilitated when self-criticism and self-evaluation are basic and evaluation by others is of secondary importance.
10) The most socially useful learning in the modern world is the learning of the process of learning, a continuing openness to experience and incorporation into oneself of the process of change.” Huge problem here as most forced schooling results in learning what to think but now how to think. Individual learning methods vary and the promotion of one method to learning is not optimal.

-Excerpt from Carl Rogers Freedom to Learn