Learning is a life-long process

Hello Everyone!

I still have another photo, but our server is down and I can't access it right now. If you are like me, you are at work today. I drove into the parking lot and there were no cars at all! This is at the admin building. All our shelter staff are here too.

Today we are talking about:

Learning is a life-long process.

I believe this one is about us. Are we committed to learning? I love to learn. I am always reading. I am always asking questions. I can not imagine not discovering new things.

It is sad that often our education system does not instill that love of learning into our youth. It is often about students doing whatever the teacher wants to get good grades. It is often about memorizing facts that have no relevence to life. Anyway, I hope that you love to learn. (Especially since I will be doing our training in June!)

Learning can be about more than our work, though. I love to learn the names of the birds, trees, flowers, etc. I love to learn about people. I especially love to learn about other countries and places.(There are things I don't like learning though. I am not interested in mechanical manuals...like how to operate a computer, camera, etc. I am not interested in learning how to fix my own car, etc.)

I encourage you to explore what you love and to commit to learning more about it. Once I read the book, The Long Gray Line which is about the West Point class of 1966. This is the class that had the most lieutenants sent to Vietnam. After reading it, I started reading other books about the Vietnam War inlcuding one written by a soldier who got cancer from the agent orange that his father okayed using on the countryside there.

If we are learning, we can't help but share that with others. We can help our youth learn on the internet, but also through books. Remember in our assets talk, that reading for pleasure was the lowest of all activities done by youth today. (The Harry Potter books are great ones to get youth interested in reading for pleasure.)

As for us, reading about youth development and working with youth is a great way to increase our knowledge in what we do. I will get a list of suggested books from the staff here next week and share them with you.

Hope you have a great holiday weekend!

LA