The origin of learning

02/12/2023 Nilson Lattari

In our lives, we learn in different ways; through school, teachers, books and older people who tell us past lessons and life experiences, for generations. However, when we talk to people, we are experiencing the best way for learning. In this situation, we have the opportunity to meet others, and we can discuss ideas.
We don’t learn knowledge only from common sense, the best opportunity to contest our differences of thought, and we learn beyond this because we are learning about the different.
When we deal with smart and cultured people, we have the opportunity to absorb knowledge, or we may feel inhibited or become aggressive. We may feel inhibited because our ideas are sometimes weak when facing those ideas. We make contact with a level of knowledge that we don’t imagine exists. And we wonder why we don’t expand our thoughts to reach that level of knowledge?
We sometimes have an idea about some subject, but it is only a little seed that doesn’t get to germinate, although we are sure about it. If we contact someone more brilliant than common sense, we will open a door that will provoke a question: why don’t we come to that conclusion? Intelligent people make us more determined to go further. If other ideas are different and more consistent than ours, we will have to remake them and develop them more and more.
On the other hand, when some of us contact with different ideas, and we disagree with them, we tend to be aggressive. Some of us want to hit opponents if they have different ideas with consistent arguments. In this situation, we close our minds to the world. We feel jealous and angry because we are being ridiculous and stupid.
When we deal with talkers and arrogant people, our arguments are the silence, because the best behaviour is listening better and speaking less. In our silences, we can elaborate our thoughts and face our supposed truths.
When we deal with intolerant, aggressive and stupid people, we can imagine a mirror in front of us, and this behaviour will teach us in order to be more tolerant, educated, and affectionate people. In the end, we don’t want to be aggressive and ignorant people like them.
When we deal with evil, cynicism, or hypocrisy, we can imagine that those model sometimes wants to dominate us. And we resist. We resist because our sense of criticism prevents us from him. Only conscientious people can understand different behaviours.
We have a lot of teachers in our lives. And in our lives, we learn to be teachers of ourselves. All people who are arrogant, intolerant, and stupid identify themselves in mirrors that represent them.
This behaviour doesn’t happen by conviction, but it is a mirror by identification. These people adopt incomprehensible ideas because they like to do them
We are teachers of ourselves, and we have to study more and more, and we have to understand that if negative points exist, they exist to be compared with positive points.