Jul 27
In a world where discomfort is often the status quo, citizens of the world often resort to comfort zones to hide from it all. This sometimes gets reflected in our educational sessions–we try to remove any distractions so that the student can focus on the material at hand.
Yet how can one think “outside the box” if one is still inside it?
Removing the distractions of discomfort is a nice idea, but it goes against some theories of how we learn. Discomfort often comes with change in general, and learning is change as well. Discomfort and learning are at least second cousins if not first, and one often does not happen without the other thanks to their common friend, change. Continue reading »
