#Lifelong learning

[thepeacefulgarden]

It's okay to be messy. It's okay to make mistakes and bad choices. It's okay to be flawed and imperfect. It's okay to need time. It's okay to be sad or angry. It's okay to fail. It's okay to have needs. It's okay to feel deeply. It's okay to not have all the answers. It's okay to not know what's next. It's okay to figure it out as you go. It's okay to admit you were wrong, or that you don't know the answer. It's okay to cry. It's okay to not have it all together. It's okay to need help. It's okay to ask for help, and to graciously accept help. It's okay to not have it all figured out. It's okay to go back to the drawing board. It's okay to start over from scratch.

[aqielafadiya]

Dalam Hidup ini, Bergeraklah.

"Kita beramal dalam jutaan episode, karenanya belum bisa kita nilai dalam satu-dua episode bahwa kita gagal. Memang dalam satu atau dua episode seringkali ada hal-hal yang menjengkelkan. Tapi itu adalah ujian kesabaran, bila kita sabar maka akan ditepati pahalanya. Jadi jangan sampai terjebak pada episode-episode tertentu dimana kemungkinan langkah kita memang lemah atau sedikit meleset.

Ingatlah bahwa kita bergerak dalam episode yang sangat banyak. Walaupun demikian, setiap ada yang meleset sedikit atau terasa kurang, harus dijadikan evaluasi terus menerus agar kita dapat melangkah lebih ihsan lagi."

-KH. Hilmi Aminuddin rahimahullah Ta'ala.

Kebaikan tidak pernah berhenti meski jejak kebaikan itu telah bertebaran di masa lampau. Pun kebaikan tetap bisa dilakukan meski jejak keburukan menghiasi masa lalu.

Yang menjadikan kita terhenti dalam kebaikan adalah merasa sudah pantas karena berbuat baik, atau bahkan merasa tak pantas karena terlalu banyak berbuat khilaf.

Sedang kita adalah manusia yang ingin tetap produktif, berkarya, dan berjuang untuk kebaikan. Maka dalam hidup ini, bergeraklah.

Bergerak itu bukannya tidak melelahkan. Bersabar itu bukannya tidak membosankan. Berjuang itu bukannya tidak menyakitkan. Bahkan para pejuang risalah itu bukannya sepi dari godaan kefuturan. Justru rasa sakit itu selalu bersama mereka sepanjang hidupnya. Setiap hari hingga akhirnya beradaptasi, dan kekelahan itu sendiri akhirnya lelah mencekik iman. Saat mengakui kelemahan sebagai insan, di situlah terkadang kita menemukan kekuatan.

Bergeraklah, hidup ini indah terlepas dari segala ujian dan rintangannya. Senyumlah, karena setiap musibah yang datang mehampiri itu tak akan lama. Hiduplah seperti biasa, hidup dengan terus memperbaiki diri, berusaha mewujudkan cita-cita, dan menciptakan amal-amal nyata.

Sebab setelah Allah menciptakan dunia beserta isinya, Allah telah melekatkan satu sifat untuknya : Sementara. Maka bukankah tidak ada orientasi yang paling membuat kita tenang, paling membuat kita berdaya untuk memperbanyak perjuangan, kecuali ditujukan kepada Allah semata ?

"Alladzi khalaqal mauta wal hayaata liyabluwakum ayyukum ahsanu 'amala, wa huwal 'azizul ghafuur.."

"Yang Menciptakan Mati dan Hidup, untuk menguji kamu siapa di antara kamu yang lebih baik amalnya. Dan Dia Maha Perkasa, lagi Maha Pengampun."

Dalam hidup ini, bergeraklah. Jangan diam di tempatmu. Karena kau masih bernafas dan memiliki waktu.

@aqielafadiya

Daar Qoof, 21 Agustus 2024. || 09.21 CLT. Mengevaluasi episode demi episode.

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Multilingual Lists

Days of the week in Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese

Lunes, lunedì, segunda-feira

Martes, martedì, terça-feira

Miércoles, mercoledì, quarta-feira

Jueves, giovedì, quinta-feira

Viernes, venerdì, sexta-feira

Sábado, sabato, sábado

Domingo, domenica, domingo

Months of the year in Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese

Enero, gennaio, janeiro

Febrero, febbraio, fevereiro

Marzo, marzo, março

Abril, abrile, abril

Mayo, maggio, maio

Junio, giungio, junho

Julio, luglio, julho

Agosto, agosto, agosto

Septiembre, settembre, setembro

Octubre, ottobre, outubro

Noviembre, novembre, novembro

Diciembre, dicembre, dezembro

Seasons in Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese

El invierno, l’inverno, o inverno

La primavera, la primavera, a primavera

El verano, l’estate, o verão

El otoño, l’autunno, o outono

[randomberlinchick]

Celebrating Thirty Years of German

In January 1994, I started a German language class in San Francisco at the Goethe Institut, which met three times a week in the evening. I had a very demanding full-time job in a publishing house, and taking night classes after work didn't make life any easier.

That said, by August of that year, I had sold most of my stuff, quit my job, and moved to Austria for an intense German class at the University of Vienna. By January 1995, I had secured a fellowship to work at a German publishing house in Frankfurt. The rest, as they say . . . 😊

I often think about the decision to learn German and how much fucking time and energy it took. If I could go back in time, I would tell my exhausted self doing homework at the kitchen table until midnight, not to worry. The hard work would change my life, opening doors for me I had no idea existed.

So shout out to all of the adult learners out there struggling with something new. It takes courage, patience, and stamina, but it's fucking worth it! And if you ever need a cheerleader, hit me up!

[thoughtlessarse]

Chimpanzees, like humans, may be life-long learners, a study suggests. Researchers have found these great apes continue to learn and hone their tool-using skills well into adulthood. The team observed the chimps became better at using their fingers to grip and manipulate their stick tools as they got older, and continued to sharpen their skills in the first 20 years of their lives. The team said its findings, published in the journal Plos Biology, show perfecting skills is more than just a matter of physical development and potentially related to mental learning capacities as well. The work also helps shed light on the thinking and lifelong learning skills evolved in humans, according to the researchers. They wrote: “Chimpanzees have one of the most extensive tool kit of non-human animals.” The team added: “In wild chimpanzees, the intricacies of tool use learning continue into adulthood. “This pattern supports ideas that large brains across hominids (group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes such as humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and their immediate ancestors) allow continued learning through the first two decades of life.”

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[kentonralphtoews]

[haly-reads]

Growing up, I have slowly come to realize that learning is not difficult. The process of unlearning things and habits that are no longer meaningful is the tough task.

[windsails]

learning is a kind of love i think, a love of life. for me learning isn’t about memorization, only encountering the information and moving on. whatever sticks is what’s for me

[raffaellopalandri]

Grow

Thinking that we can grow without lifelong changing, learning, and working on ourselves is wrong. Our progress comes from a holistic commitment to making us better.

[thepeacefulgarden]

[petervintonjr]

"I'm not going to be the teacher. We're going to learn together. You're going to teach me some things, and maybe there are a few things I might be able to teach you, but I don't consider myself a teacher. I just feel that I'm here to learn with you. We'll learn things together."

As an adult educator myself, I couldn't help but be drawn into the fascinating life and philosophies of Bernice Violanthe Robinson. Born February 7, 1914 in Charleston, South Carolina --a day that saw snowfall in Charleston for the first time in more than a century. Robinson's mother, Martha Elizabeth (née Anderson) Robinson took this as a sign that her daughter would spend her life "disturbing the elements." Martha was herself sister to Septima Poinsette Clark's mother (see Lesson #74 in this series), and Bernice's own principles would similarly coalesce around the twin premises of education and citizenship, much like her famous cousin.

In 1929 Bernice moved from South Carolina to Harlem, New York with the intention of becoming a musician, but after a period in the famed garment district, her talents as a seamstress took prominence and she graduated from Poro School of Cosmetology. In 1947 she returned to Johns Island, South Carolina to care for her ageing parents, and with her professional talents was able to open her own salon --a form of economic independence not available to Black women in most other careers. At the time beauticians were traditionally well-regarded amongst civil rights workers, not only because they were known and respected in a community, but also because of their almost-stereotypical role as "the good listeners," and that as self-employed entrepreneurs were less prone to backlash from punitive employers. By all accounts a socially engaging and affable personality with an easy talent for friendly first impressions, Bernice joined the NAACP and made good use of her salon as a "hub" for local activism, and made many contacts and acquaintances.

In 1956 Robinson attended a workshop hosted by the Highlander Folk School (an organization that itself certainly merits its own course of study); her cousin Septima Clark also attended. Ostensibly the topic was about desegregation but over the course of the session the focus turned to civic literacy and educating would-be voters. Bernice expressed an interest in helping to better educate the people of Johns Island but lamented her lack of professional teaching credentials. Clark countered by suggesting that her cousin was the ideal candidate for such a role precisely because she lacked such a credential; that she was perfectly suited to the task because of her lack of formal training --no preconceived notions.

Thusly "voluntold," Bernice threw herself into her new calling; in five months (!) she developed lesson plans, curricula, and distributable materials that would lead to SCLC voter-registration workshops in communities well beyond Johns Island; eventually catching on in Charleston itself. The growth of these first Citizenship Schools in turn fed into the enthusiasm and the missions of CORE, the Freedom Riders, and the SNCC --all of which reinforced one another as they continued to educate and motivate scores of citizens who had never before stepped into a voting booth.

As an adult educator, Bernice also adhered to the principle of never stopping learning: in 1967 she completed a University of Wisconsin correspondence course in community development, and also found time to secure an additional degree in interior design. Robinson stepped down from her behind-the-scenes SCLC role in 1970, having quietly developed what amounted to the most successful and widespread literacy campaign in modern American history. She pivoted to developing curricula for the South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers (SCCFW); and then in 1972 --in what I can only assume is the inherent desire of the adult educator to yet again try something new and different-- she ran for Congress.

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I’m just curious what people think

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[hachama]

Technical papers are such a crap shoot. So many of them are written by people who clearly hate writing and believe that information should be inaccessible to people who maybe don't have the familiarity or formal training they do.

But I hope the full text of that study on tin whiskers isn't paywalled.

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[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

Final papers of the semester.

Accompanied as always by the Bluebird of Happiness. I’m thriving in school and grateful for the opportunity to study with brilliant faculty and classmates.