Lifelong learning is must?

Nowadays, the ability to keep on competing needs us to be must have the urge of becoming a lifelong learner is very crucial and must be taken seriously by parents, students and society. Lifelong learning is a self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for not only personal but professional reasons as well. It does not only enhance social inclusion, active citizenship and individual development, but also increases competitiveness and employability too. The importance of Lifelong Learning has been increasing for some important reasons. such as increasing of life expectancy, to desire for increasing the life quality, and trying to keep themselves in good physical and mental condition by humans.

Everything seems most compelling to us when we are talking about a lifelong learner because there are lots of important reasons that drive us to become a lifelong learning. For instance, be able to increase functionality, purpose and path, passions and life satisfaction, and longevity.

From the perspective of functionality in order to function effectively day-to-day amidst a rapidly changing world, we need to learn new things. Whether it be learning to use a new phone, a new app, or a new process at work, building skills is a constant in an ever-changing world. . Being able to skill up self skills may means an innovation of replacing our current roles and used both formal and informal learning methods to skill up and sustain our remain valuable to perform a task.

Purpose and path is a term that is used addressing purpose and path is “college and career readiness.”as a preparation to become or doing a task, which is also called as life ready phrase.This concept of life readiness refers to the development of perseverance, a growth mindset (at its core, a belief that we can all continue to learn and grow throughout our lives) and other social-emotional skills.

The point of passions and life satisfaction is referring to pursuing passions and interests, which is outside of work, (where we might have already done a lot of learning, or feel saturated with experiences and knowledge) is important for us. For examples, nowadays, new generation or milliner is creating new pathways of life through education then finally create careers they love to become money making job.

Having the awareness of longevity is another catalyser that promotes lifelong learning to take place . Nowadays, we all heard the stories of people who have actively learned their entire lives living longer. Health research has pointed to lifelong learning as one of the best ways for seniors to stay healthy. An active mind throughout our life has been proven to help our live longer and healthier .

In order to become an efficient lifelong learner, there is a need for us to know how to get ourselves engage with lifelong learning, practically. There are some milestones such as learning how to learn, how to know what things should be learnt, how to understand learning mechanism , need to be understood clearly as by understanding these will enable us to have abilities will guide each student in life-long-learning .

A lifelong learning agenda is more relevant agenda to todays’ society as the emerging of technology as well as information technology. People need to be able to be flexible and able to digest every information that they encounter in daily routine as in life, working time, and also a life as a student. We conclude that, lifelong learning desire is must to have in this today’s age of millennium. By becoming a lifelong learner, we will be able to borden our horizon of knowledge and perspective, feed our wisdoms and boost our success thru our mistakes, and understand the purpose of our life better.

It is doubtless to argue that knowledge is a power that gives us space to take a full advantage of that power in order to improve lives. Becoming a lifelong learner is a calling as we are living in this millennial age rather than becomes a fate.