I Won

I Won 't Learn From You

By Herbert Kohl

Since the day a child is born , he or she conceptualizes himself or herself in a learning environment . Learning for a human being is a continuous process , first he or she learns to eat , then to scroll , talk and walk and then perform numerous of daily rituals and many other activities . These are all necessities and requirements of the social environment with whom we are coherently related and linked . But when a person refuses to learn , he or she is involved in a

very complex relation with the society . This is what Herbert Kohl envisages in his most gripping essay , I Won 't Learn from You becoming the first most important piece of critical pedagogy (McBride , 2007

Consciously our learning process is derived from several of our belief systems like values , knowledge , laws and experiences , which play the most crucial component in our life . As more we find ourselves confined to these systems , more they create a direct or indirect effect on our learning . We in our day-to-day lives learn because the situation demands and our society want us to learn but we cannot learn what we ourselves want to learn . Here the concept comes in what the Herbert Kohl states I Won 't Learn From You , it simply means negating the whole concept of learning process and challenging the stance society or environment has been taking towards the learning . Not-learning if followed is considered by many as an ignorance , carelessness...