{"id":87,"date":"2006-09-06T20:43:07","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T20:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=87"},"modified":"2006-09-06T20:43:07","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T20:43:07","slug":"pride-goeth-before-the-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"pride goeth before the learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one&#8217;s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. Pride and vanity can thus be greater obstacles to learning than stupidity.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Thomas Stasz<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think this quote says it all. In my experience, adult resistance to learning experiences has far more to do with shifting a person&#8217;s internal perceptions of their own worth and fear than it does with time, money, familiarity with technology, or personal life issues. If we want to, we can work around most of these &#8216;barriers&#8217;. The one that is most difficult to surmount is internal. Egos and icons..<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"technoratitag\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/resistance+to+learning\">resistance to learning<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/internal+barriers\">internal barriers<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one&#8217;s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. Pride and vanity can thus be greater obstacles to learning than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}