Leo Buscaglia, in his book Papa, My Father, relates:

“Papa believed that the greatest sin of which we were capable was to go to bed at night as ignorant as we had been when we awakened that day….
So Papa devised a ritual. Since dinnertime was family time and everyone came to dinner unless they were dying of malaria, it seemed the perfect forum for sharing what new things we had learned that day….

In retrospect, after years of studying how people learn, I realize what a dynamic educational technique papa was offering us, reinforcing the value of continual learning.

My daughters Iani and Tesa love the Disney Playhouse show  Jojo’s Circus. At the end each episode, someone asks, “What did you learn today, JoJo?” JoJo explains what she has learned in the course of the episode.

In my travels for work along NLEX, Bamboo asks:

I’ve made it a point to learn something new everyday before I sleep.  When I conduct training, I share this daily goal to my class and challenge them to do the same. So when their eyes light up with new knowledge I tell them half-seriously, “You can sleep now. You’ve learned something new today.” Some take it half-jokingly too and fall half-asleep.

Learning need not be confined in a formal setting or the classroom. It can come in all forms and sizes and each person learn differently. Yet we all need to learn, everyday.

When we stop learning, that’s the day our life ends.

Living is learning. Learning is living life.

So, what have you learned today?