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

You have the right*

To learn

1. To learn about how you learn
2. To learn as slow and as fast as you choose
3. To rearrange your room (house, garage, life) to make room for your learning
4. To claim space, time, and money for your own learning
5. To learn from people who fascinate you
6. To learn beyond school
7. To be challenged
8. To learn from people who fascinate you
9. To ask for and to receive help
10. To learn in quiet and without interruption with serious intent
11. To learn in noise and mess with playful possibility
12. To make a mess and not have to clean up right away
13. To learn what is valuable and to value your learning
14. To choose your own team of teachers, coaches, mentors, advisors
15. To work with people who find you and your visions fascinating
16. To work with people who are fascinated by your brilliant visions and will hold you accountable to do what you said you would do
17. To be witnessed
18. To focus
19. To make a difference
20. To make media
21. To invent media
22. To study with your heroes
23. To experiment
24. To experience
25. To test your limits
26. To contribute
27. To change the world
28. To create your own curriculum and to stick with it
29. To change your mind when it doesn’t work and start again
30. To study in community both near and distant, familiar and exotic
31. To savor the erotic nature of learning
32. To learn from mistakes
33. To join the community of practice of your choice
34. To join the professional network of your choice as a contributor
35. To make learning a priority in your life
36. To pay your dues
37. To incubate and hibernate
38. To be in action and produce measurable concrete results
39. To learn how to discern between the time for #38 and #39
40. To work with people who have some distance and perspective and can help you with #40
41. To dabble
42. To dive in deep
43. To cross disciplines
44. To learn what no one can teach
45. To learn so that you might teach others to learn
46. To learn new ways of learning that work for you
47. To practice

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