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ASSIGNMENT FOR THE LEARNING AUTOBIOGRAPHY

This assignment is designed to raise your awareness of the following areas. Please consider each area in your essay.

1. the development of your attitudes toward learning and education
2. the genesis of your intellectual and professional interests
3. your preferred style(s) of learning
4. the study strategies that you use to motivate yourself, understand and retain information and concepts, and monitor your own learning
5. your thoughts and ideas about how people learn

Please consider each of these areas in your autobiography, and use details, examples and anecdotes that will make your development as a learner interesting and alive for your reader. this paper should not be a generic portrait of a succes sful college student; it should be a vibrant portait of you, in all your unique splendor!

These quotes on learning and education might help to spark some serious thinking. And/or disagreement!

"Education is not knowledge. It is an attitude of mind and ability to use information rather than a memory stocked with facts."

"He who has imagination without learning has wings -- and no feet."

"Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food -- the way to get life out of it."

"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than domatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdon."

"Where there is wonder, admiration, and awe, knowledge and love will grow."

Anon