Tawfiq Al -Sibai
In a time when change is accelerating, and the voice of knowledge is above the noise of ignorance, learning is no longer exclusive to educational institutions or training halls. Rather, it has become a deep pattern of lifestyle, accompanying a person at every moment of his moments, and gives him a continuous ability to grow, adapt and develop. Learning does not only mean the acquisition of books or attendance of lectures and lessons, but also goes beyond this to become internal behavior, opens our eyes to everything that can teach us something, even if it is not presented in the form of a direct lesson.
We learn from friends when we see them embracing joy, and learn from the enemies when we monitor how we motivate the challenge to move forward. How many children were surprised by his simple nature, so he awakened in us as a conscious consciousness, or a passing scene that has been a question in our depths, or even a painful feeling that we warned about a fact that was absent from us. Self -contemplation and previous experiences, and even the painful mistakes that we have always avoided confronting them, constituted in their entirety silent but effective educational curricula, only if we are ready to listen and contemplate.
This philosophy is wonderfully evident in the life of the famous physical world, Stephen Hawking, who challenged time, body and disease to continue learning and giving until the last minute of his life. Hawking at the age of twenty -one was affected by the atrophic lateral hardening disease, and the doctors told him that he would not live more than a few years. However, despite the loss of the gradual movement, and the fact that it has become unable to speak except through an electronic device, he refused to stop learning, thinking and research.
His physical disability did not prevent him from becoming one of the greatest minds of theoretical physics, and to write books that changed our view of the universe like a “brief history of time”, to participate in conferences, give lectures, and inspire generations of scholars and thinkers. It has made knowledge a way to survive, and from scientific curiosity is an energy that overcomes the body’s impotence. He saw that the mind is the only thing that does not know the limits, as long as a person continues to ask questions.
Likewise, real learning is not only based on receiving, but to awareness of the source, understanding the inherent message, and analyzing the context and goal. In a world that is overwhelmed by information, and the intentions are mixed, it has become obligatory for those who seek to develop himself to have a critical insight, which enables him to distinguish between those who teach him to develop it, and who knows it to restrict it, between the experience that matures thought, and those that confuse convictions.
Here lies the fundamental difference between surface knowledge, and the in -depth knowledge that is built with accumulation, contemplation and review. Life gives us lessons continuously, some of which come to success, while others are covered with pain, but the smart is the one who possesses mental and spiritual flexibility to turn each situation into an opportunity to learn.
The one who adopts this philosophy is never intellectually, but remains renewed, alive, and ready for every new one, no matter how old, or his experience has reached; Let the lessons that are not said that they refine our characters, and form the essence of our wisdom, which make our experiences a rich fabric that covers our souls, and raises us towards a horizon beyond the mere existence. As if life addresses us without pronouncing, and learning us without giving one lecture; Leving the task of capturing signals and translating the hidden meanings for those who are willing to read, to understand them, to turn them into an endless meaning, awareness and wisdom.
