It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things but learning another way to think about things.
I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.
I enjoy learning about different periods and people and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are certain things unite everybody.
We started this band as kids and as time has gone on we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way and always end up learning something I didn't know.
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
In Britain you do your job. When you do an American TV show there is a sense of being one with the crew and there is a leadership element which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain you just do it leave and say 'Thanks.'