Sam-Michel Cembalo explains how self-directed learning is possible.
The means are already in the learner, i.e. he knows how to do a certain number of things, often he knows how to do a lot of things but he doesn’t know that he can decide to use them, because he’s never had the opportunity, because in the education system we rarely leave any initiative, let’s say developed, to the pupils. So after a fairly long history of learning, people arrive with no idea that they’re capable of learning on their own because they’ve already done a lot of learning activities. Generally speaking, we don’t think that we learn outside school. They don’t think that they’ve learnt ninety-five per cent of what they know outside school.
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