Living and learning 
Living and learning It was Friedrich Nietzsche who said that what does not kill us makes us stronger, and he was nearly right. Only nearly? Yes, because much of what does not kill us has no effect on us whatsoever – it simply passes us by. Our life experience has the potential to make us stronger, but only if we capitalise on the opportunities presented. So, a more realistic aphorism would be: what does not kill us has the potential to make us stronger if we take the trouble to learn from that experience. But much will depend on our understanding of what learning is all about, how the model of learning we adopt conceptualises it. For example, if we…
Dr Neil ThompsonNovember 13, 2013