Large numbers of people are personally disenfranchised from learning, often because of poor and uninspired experiences in educational institutions. And yet, as the first learning principle of the Rover Learning Company says, ‘Learning is the most natural human instinct. ‘This paper discusses the need to learn and some of the tools and techniques that can help rekindle a lifelong participation in learning.
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