Dear LPG,

Did you know that there is a train of thought that shows us to have three basic ways that we learn?  According to Fleming's VAK model, we either learn best by watching, hearing or getting ‘stuck in’ ourselves (or we can benefit from a mixture of all three). 

I have worked out that I am best at hearing things.   Perhaps I am lazy but I have never really liked reading, although I can.  I think that I lack patience, which is why I can only admit to having read two books throughout my whole life, excluding the bible. 

While I was a hard-working pre-pensioner who worked shifts, which resulted in my always being tired and never having much time to do more than work, eat and sleep. I always dreamed of the time when I would be able to learn something completely new. When I finally arrived at retirement, I was truly ready for the challenge, but I forgot what being a student was really like.  I don’t want to become a professor in my old age, although a degree might be nice, and I have heard about people who have waited until retirement to achieve such heights.  I have always been told that learning is a way of reducing the rate of deterioration that the older brain experiences.  With these thoughts in mind I feel this to be a ‘win-win’ thing to do. 

I only had to put the question into Google to find this.  Here is a little quiz that may help you to work out which sort of learner you are (►►►)

KN, Bellingham.

LPG did a little Googling of its own and found the following related information…

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