The origin of learning

06/01/2024 Nilson Lattari

In our lives, we learn in different ways. Through school and teachers and books and older people who tell us past lessons and life experiences across generations.
However, when we are talking to people we are experiencing the best way for learning. In these situations, 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 thoughts, but we learn beyond this because we learn about the different.
When we deal with intelligent and cultured people, we have the opportunity to absorb knowledge or we may feel inhibited or become aggressive. We may feel inhibited because our arguments sometimes are weak in comparison. We make contact with a level of knowledge that we don’t imagine exists. And we wonder why don’t we 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 make contact with someone more brilliant than common sense we will open a door that will provoke a question: why haven’t we reached that conclusion? Intelligent people make us more determined to go further. If other ideas are more different and consistent than ours we will have to remake them and develop them more and more.
On the other hand, when some of us make 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 such situations, we close our minds to the world. We feel jealous and angry because we are being ridiculous and stupid people.
When we deal with talkative 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 we can know 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 compassionate people. In the end, we don’t want to be aggressive and ignorant people like them.
When we deal with evil and cynicism, or hypocrisy we can imagine that model sometimes wants to dominate us. And we resist. We resist because our sense of criticism prevents us from succumbing to it. Only conscientious people can understand different behaviours.
We have a lot of teachers in our life. And in our life, 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 represented by identification. These people adopt incomprehensible ideas because they like them
We are teachers of ourselves and we have to study more and more, and we have to understand that negative points exist to be compared with positive points.