a slow learner’s bill of rights (draft 1.0)

You have the right*

To learn

To learn about how you learn
To learn as slow and as fast as you choose
To rearrange your room (house, garage, life) to make room for your learning
To claim space, time, and money for your own learning
To learn from people who fascinate you
To learn beyond school
To be challenged
To learn from people who fascinate you
To ask for and to receive help
To learn in quiet and without interruption with serious intent
To learn in noise and mess with playful possibility
To make a mess and not have to clean up right away
To learn what is valuable and to value your learning
To choose your own team of teachers, coaches, mentors, advisors
To work with people who find you and your visions fascinating
To work with people who are fascinated by your brilliant visions and will hold you accountable to do what you said you would do
To be witnessed
To focus
To make a difference
To make media
To invent media
To study with your heroes
To experiment
To experience
To test your limits
To contribute
To change the world
To create your own curriculum and to stick with it
To change your mind when it doesn’t work and start again
To study in community both near and distant, familiar and exotic
To savor the erotic nature of learning
To learn from mistakes
To join the community of practice of your choice
To join the professional network of your choice as a contributor
To make learning a priority in your life
To pay your dues
To incubate and hibernate
To be in action and produce measurable concrete results
To learn how to discern between the time for #38 and #39
To work with people who have some distance and perspective and can help you with #40
To dabble
To dive in deep
To cross disciplines
To learn what no one can teach
To learn so that you might teach others to learn
To learn new ways of learning that work for you
To practice

* I know this list is incomplete and much is redundant. Comment, and help make it more better.

4 thoughts on “a slow learner’s bill of rights (draft 1.0)”

Patricia,
you are always in my heart leading edge and you are so smart
for someone who has learned to manage the slow side of your precious being.Really you are remarkable. This is great.

I just love you to bits.

xxoo Jim Allen

What an extraordinary list of human rights for the learning person. Let me add a few that helps bring the number to 50, at least:

– To learn at all levels of being.
– To learn so that you might teach others to learn
– To learn new ways of learning that work for you
– To unlearn
– To program and metaprogram your learning programs