Learning is the continued experience that utilizes non-credit academic courses,
educational travel, community service and volunteerism to fully engage the
brain, heighten physical activity, and maintain healthy social relationships.
Learning is like a health club for your brain.
And an active mind can stimulate physical activity and keep your spirits high.
It’s an all-around fantastic tool for better health.
Scientific experts agree that “Learning
Later is Living Greater”
The secret for making the most of
learning as a proactive lifestyle for overall personal
development and a primary factor for brain health!
1. Learning
leads to an enriching life of self-fulfillment.
We believe that our capacity to learn and grow
does not decrease as our years increase. Through academic learning, educational
adventure travel and our renewed sense of volunteerism, we expand our
awareness, embrace self-fulfillment, and truly create an exciting multi-dimensional
life.
2. Learning helps us make
new friends and establish valuable relationships.
Learning is a brilliant
way to keep in touch with people, meet new friends, and enjoy life surrounded
by the company of folks who are truly embracing the excitement of our later
years.
3. Learning keeps us
involved as active contributors to society.
No
longer content to sit in a rocker on the porch whiling away the hours, today’s
retirees and Baby Boomers about to retire want and demand more from their later
years. We’re out and about, we’re taking part in educational programs,
travelling all over the world, and offering our expertise to society through
meaningful community involvement. We’re not a strain on society; we are an
incredible asset.
4. Learning helps us find
meaning in our lives.
Sometimes it is difficult
looking back on our lives, but lifelong learning gives us the benefit of real
perspective and enables us to find true meaning in the hills and valleys of our
past.”
5. Learning helps us
adapt to change.
Lifelong learning enables us to keep up with
society’s changes - especially the technological ones. A learning environment
with our peers not only makes it possible to stay abreast of change, it also
makes it fun.
6. Learning makes the
world a better place.
Through the community
service aspect of lifelong learning, older learners can give back to their
communities and to the world. “We’ve spent our time interacting with the
world,” “What we’ve learned during that time can be translated into real value
for the betterment of society. Our Wisdom
insight – it’s all of tangible benefit to the world around us.”
7. Learning increases our
wisdom.
Learning enables us to
put our lives in perspective. It increases our understanding of the whys and whats
of previous successes and failures, and it helps us understand ourselves
better. We more fully develop the wisdom
that can come with later life.
8. Learning creates a
curious, hungry mind.
The learners discover
about history, current events, politics, or the culture of other countries, the
more they want to learn. According to Nordstrom, “There’s a big world out there
just waiting for our exploration. Our drive and desire to learn fuels itself
and we keep going, constantly looking for more to feed our hungry minds.”
9. Learning helps to develop
natural abilities.
We all have innate
natural abilities, some of which might not be readily apparent. We’re no longer
working full time, even though we have the opportunity to fully explore and
develop these abilities.
10. Learning opens the
mind.
An integral part of
lifelong learning is the free exchange of ideas and viewpoints among learners. There’s
nothing like listening to or taking part in stimulating discussions to help us
see the other side of an issue. That give-and-take opens our minds and brings
us to a whole new level of enlightenment.
- Ms. Divya & Ms.Bhagya Lakshmi P.