A New Perspective on Learning

Departing from our modern day notions, Socrates suggests that learning is nothing more than recollection:

p.22, "Learning is no other than recollection. According to this, we must at some previous time have learned what we now recollect. This is possible only if out soul existed somewhere before it took on this human shape. So according to this theory too, the soul is likely to be something immortal"

I believe that Socrates' statement on learning, undermines most contemporary views on this process. Now-a-days, learning is regarded with the highest importance, methods of teaching are rehearsed in order for the most productive learning to occur. Most teenagers go to college to learn things they may have been previously ignorant of. Although some students may be more apt than others, I do not believe that all people are born with an innate bank of knowledge waiting to be discovered. I believe learning is perceiving things for the first time. Learning is obtaining knowledge that never existed within oneself, whereas studying is more of the recollection of previously learned knowledge. Learning is stimulated largely by creativity, and it does not occur on command. I truly believe learning is much more than recollection.