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The 4 Known Pillars of a Long, Healthy Life

Citizen Learner
/ By Jeff Cobb

There are no guarantees in life, particularly when it comes to life itself. Genetics, environment, or random accidents are just a few of the factors that can disrupt the best laid plans. Leaving these

Are you epistemologically modest?

Citizen Learner
/ By Jeff Cobb

“Epistemology” is one of the big, fancy worlds I encountered in graduate school and have rarely encountered since. You’ll usually see it defined as something like “theory of knowledge,”

Research says …

Never totally trust this phrase. Who did the research? How much experience did they have, and what biases – from cognitive to selection to sampling to publication – may have been involved? Who

10 Ways to Exercise Your Human Right to Learn

Citizen Learner
/ By Jeff Cobb

How deeply do you appreciate – and take advantage of – the freedom you have to learn and grow continually? This post was originally written for Blog Action Day when the focus was on human

5 Key Benefits of Lifelong Learning

Updated May 13, 2019 – If you are like me, you probably take it for granted that consciously engaging in lifelong learning is worth it, well, just because. You are intrinsically motivated to learn

Imagine. Just Imagine.

Citizen Learner
/ By Jeff Cobb

We’ve still got a lot to learn, eh? Rest in peace, John. (John Lennon, October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) (Click through if you don’t see the video)

4 Essential Attitudes for Successful Lifelong Learners

A guest post by John Dewey Some attitudes may be named…which are central in effective intellectual ways of dealing with subject matter. Among the most important are directness, open-mindedness, single-mindedness

Putting Civic Literacy to the Test

I was reading a Hal Crowther‘s article on how America is losing its conscience, brain, and heart when I noted mention of a study by the National Civic Literacy Board. A few Googly-seconds later

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