It is said that learning never ends, it only changes form.

At different stages of your life (from ages 0-onwards) you learn through different means: through example, schooling, experience and through teaching.

You learned to utter a word due to the persistent guidance of your parents. At this stage where a lot of learning takes place, your learning abilities and habits are slowly molded.

The knowledge that you acquire at the peak of your youth is mostly the result of formal education. Formal education advances the learning abilities that you have developed earlier in your childhood. Education prepares you to the next stage of your life by developing you physically, intellectually, socially, emotionally and mentally.

The next stage of your life is the battlefield that education had prepared you for – work. This is a demanding stage where learning is tested often in an environment more competitive than the school environment. Here, instructional learning is acquired through different media. Workplace experience and colleague interaction are also some of the great sources of learning at this stage.

As you reach the age of retirement, you slow down physically and tend to be more inclined in recreation and domestic activities. Learning is still possible through continuous reading, engaging in mind enhancing activities like knitting, painting and chess. At this stage, learning isn’t directed to skill development for employment or in a competitive sense; it is usually geared to enrichment and the slowing down of the aging process of the mind.

At these stages of your life, learning is an essential tool in achieving any goal. Later in life when all your dreams had come true you can look back and be glad that you have studied and learned enough.

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