{"id":62,"date":"2010-04-13T13:24:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T21:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2010-04-13T14:41:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:41:04","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/what-does-it-mean-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to learn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153learn\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a verb that denotes to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153acquire knowledge of (a subject) or skill in (an art, etc.) as a result of study, experience, or teaching\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.oed.com\/\">OED<\/a>). This word comes to us by way of the Old English (c.450-c.1100) word <em>leornian,<\/em> which meant \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to get knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153be cultivated\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Further etymological analysis shows that <em>leornian<\/em> is likely from an older Germanic verb denoting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to follow or find the track\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. These root meanings suggest that learning has long been understood as an action of finding, or following, as well as being akin to growing. Moreover, learn also has old ties to the word <em>lore<\/em>, from the Old English word <em>lar<\/em>, which referred to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153learning\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in terms of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that which is taught&#8221; or &#8220;a piece of teaching\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.oed.com\/\">OED<\/a>). All these associations evidence a longstanding correlation that exists between learning and knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>In modern terms, the base meaning of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153learn\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is to acquire knowledge. That is, a person changing state from not knowing something to subsequently knowing something is said to have learned (something). Consequently, to understand learning we must consider, 1) the nature of the knowledge that has been gained (the outcome of learning) and 2) how it came to be acquired (the process of learning). I will consider these two points in future posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153learn\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a verb that denotes to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153acquire knowledge of (a subject) or skill in (an art, etc.) as a result of study, experience, or teaching\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (OED). This word comes to us by way of the Old English (c.450-c.1100) word leornian, which meant \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to get knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153be cultivated\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Further etymological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}