ABSTRACT

Learning is a subject worthy of study, not merely because by understanding it people can be encouraged to learn more effectively, but because it lies at the foundation of all human being. To study learning is, therefore, to study people — not people isolated in laboratories or in artificial situations, like classrooms, but people in time, space, and society. This task has preoccupied mythmakers and scholars from the time of Plato or even earlier, and so any individual study can only cast a little more light on this complex and important subject.