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It took me 47 years to learn how to learn.
When I went back to school, I was mortified because I bought into the notion that I could no longer learn something entirely new. It didn't help that I was not a reader-I can't learn things through words, only through actions.
It is through the actions that the "web" started to build; by having several classes per semester, I could have a better understanding by applying one lesson to another, one class to another. Hence, I acquired more of the underlying understanding. I related each lesson to another to better use what was being taught.
While I went to school I work part time there in the Financial offices and noticed an enormous dropout rate. My theory about that is that there were many who just did not know how to apply what they were being taught to anything else in life; conversations with a few of these students verified that. Also interestingly enough, students closer to my own age "stuck it out" more. We graduated. Perhaps those that feel education doesn't pertain to life need to learn how to learn.
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