Remembering How to Ride a Bike and Recovering from COVID
“We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.” ― Plato, Meno I actually don't completely agree with Plato on this point about learning. I think it does capture something about the "aha" moments and something about a new piece of knowledge settling into the framework and parameters of that we already know, and I've definitely had some insights into Plato that put me in "that great sea of beauty" but there are so so many things that I have learned that I am just sure I did not know in my last sojourn with the forms. I also think we learn by doing etc..... I think being in the intellectual space of learning has a recollective quality to it. My mind is ready to learn and it didn't exactly learn how to do that, though you do learn to learn by learning... Anyway, all that has been on my mind as I'm working to relearn bike riding. I vividly remember learning to...