Thought I’d posted this before, but can’t find it. It’s is my list against which I judge learning theories. If they don’t apply to everything on this list, they’re incomplete.

* Early Years – learning through play
* ACE (accelerated Christian education): children are assessed on entry and progress at their own speed, working through booklets and doing the tests at the end of each one before they can move on to the next. They work mainly alone, but if they get stuck they put a little flag up in their cubicle and a supervisor helps out.
* Learning through observation – Gerald Durrell in My family and other animals. Gerald spends all day alone in the wilds of Corfu and amasses an enormous amount of zoological knowledge. He rarely meets anyone who encourages this or is prepared to show any interest. The people he encounters mostly speak another language and are from a very different culture.
* Gaining self knowledge through retreat and/or contemplation
* Learning skills through apprenticeship
* Traditional sushi chef training. ‘All you do the first couple of years is observe. You watch how the master filets fish, and you learn how to cook rice.’
* Learning through reading
* Learning through searching the Internet
* Learning to play a tune on the piano
* Learning languages through immersion
* Education in Saudi Arabia until the 1950s: kuttab schools specialising in memorising the Qu’ran
* Tai chi – learning wordlessly through physical moves.