Years ago I worked as an RN in a physical rehab hospital. Patients would come to the hospital for one to several weeks following health events that impaired their function in some way. That is, they would come following a stroke, a cardiac event e.g. MI or heart surgery, orthopedic surgery on their knee or leg, or following an accident in which their mobility was impaired. There were other reasons why they came, but all came with the intent and expectation of receiving rehabilitation therapy to help them return to a level of activity and function similar to, if not the same as, what they were doing prior to the event.

The ultimate goal of all education is, or at least ought to be, to teach the individual how to learn. In my mind, what they learn is less important than that they learn how to learn. why? Because if you know how to learn, there is no limit to what you can learn!

Not only is there no limit to what you can learn, but you will have the skills to teach yourself what you need to know. Part of that process, at least in my mind, is learning how to question what you see or hear, to challenge your own assumptions, and to have a desire to seek out answers to the questions you have.

Learning in Public

Probably a couple of years ago, while doing some researching on learning, I ran across numerous articles and blog posts that touted the notion of learning in public. In general, these were associated with Personal Knowledge Management software such as Notion, Roam, or Obsidian (and a whole bunch of others!). This topic piqued my interest then and I played with it a bit. More recently, the topic was brought back to my attention so I wanted to explore it a bit more.