When I was doing my B.Ed, I thought a learner is one who learns from their own experiences. I read many books related to the theory of different psychologists like Skinner and Thorndike, the behaviorists, and the theory of Gestalt philosophers who have differing opinions related to the theory of learning. The behaviorists said that learning is a process of stimulus and response. It favored that all learning is actually based on S-R theory. But slowly, my quest for knowledge and curiosity forced me to read some more psychologists. I came to understand the depth of actual learning, and I realized that it is not just a process, but also a product. And after learning the behaviorists, I realized that they are just talking about training, which is a small part of learning.
During my B.Ed, I got a book from my college library, "Think on these things," written by J. Krishnamurti, a great philosopher of the East. In it, he said, "An intelligent person is one who lives dangerously, and a true learner is one who takes initiative and does simple things differently." One line from J. Krishnamurti greatly inspired me: "The aim of education is not to make students able to give answers to questions, rather the aim of education is to make them able to ask questions from the answers."
This is what our great saints of the East also said: that from questions, you can get true answers. There is no fixed answer to any question; rather, there are many answers to one question. And a true learner is one who has the courage to ask questions from themselves and starts their journey from their questions, which takes them toward one answer to every kind of question in life.
