Learning From Experience - published Dec 16 2011

Friday Times Dec 16 2011

The best way to learn and to teach is by example and experience. Arguments and explanations never have the impact that real experience can have. When raising children, the best way to teach them to stay away from fire is not by telling them so, or telling them that burning hurts. Children learn quicker if they are either burnt or get close enough to feel unbearable heat. This teaches them to stay away from fire without a word. A leading lawyer and human rights activist and friend from Swat used to say way back in the 1980s that there were two types of people, those that learn from others’ experiences and those that learn only from their own experiences. Those in the first category are better off than those in the second.

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