Abstract
No sentient being stops learning, regardless of age. Learning equals adaptation, and adaptation is survival. Likewise, no collection of sentient beings ignores the role that learning plays in the foundation of a civil society. Without the capacity to learn a community cannot sustain itself, nor can it adapt to changing cultural circumstances.
He does not teach his pupils his knowledge, but orders them to venture into the forest of things and signs, to say what they have seen and what they think of what they have seen, to verify it and have it verified.
—Jacques Rancière
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Conner, L. (2013). Building Audience Learning Communities. In: Audience Engagement and the Role of Arts Talk in the Digital Era. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137023926_5
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