For people to incorporate knowledge on a daily basis, almost as usual, perhaps a deeper level of understanding is needed and here we come to the concept of teaching to learn. This task no longer only passes through the university, but the state and educational institutions must also be involved.
Learning to learn is what guarantees that people obtain the ability to continue acquiring new knowledge in an unlimited way and according to the characteristics and needs that the market presents at that time, as well as the job, the organization and the specific task performed in the company for which you are providing your services.
If we feed a person fish they will eat for a day, if we teach them how to fish they will eat for a lifetime, this is a parallelism that synthesizes the concept of learning to learn that formators and educated people have, the work of the former will focus on toasting, the function of the seconds will be to search.
In today's world, training never ends. A professional who wants to progress should not only have knowledge, because if he stays with them and nothing else, in a couple of years (or months) it will be obsolete. No organization can guarantee the future of resources unless it gives them the opportunities to gain knowledge on their own.
Much more valuable is this concept if we take into account "the boom" of knowledge that we are experiencing. The amount of knowledge doubles every five years, between 1950 and 1975 the same number of books were produced as in the 500 years after the invention of the printing press, now we find technology and fundamentally the Internet as providers of quantity knowledge, which accelerates the quantity and quality of knowledge.
The first two editions of the British encyclopedia required the work of only two scientists, today more than a thousand experts are required to do it. By all this I mean that learning has become as necessary an activity as breathing or going to the bathroom. The speed with which knowledge is updated is a constant and requires learning as a regular tool.
Thomas Stewart, in his book, gives a twist to the concept of teaching to learn, he calls it the virtuous cycle, "people learn to do things that become stories, which become documents, which in turn they enter the network so that other people in the organization learn how to do things ».
Teaching to learn is illustrated by the UK Rover Cars company, the company has eliminated involuntary layoffs and in return offers employees to carefully examine the different educational alternatives they can choose. Rover Cars puts less emphasis on technology to focus on learning.
The more skilled human capital and the organizations in the domain of this tool, the greater flexibility and assimilation capacity they will obtain to adapt to these dizzying environments where the rhythm imposed by knowledge must be followed.
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