"By creating we think, by living we learn"
I logged onto the Dundee University Homepage today to access my emails and I have never noticed this quote at the top of the page, I clicked on it hoping to find out a wee bit more information as I thought it was really interesting and very true.
After reading what was said on the Dundee website I understand that Patrick Geddes idea was that learning should be rooted in real life experience and that the best original thinking is a creative process. I find this statement to be very inspiring and it goes along side the famous line of 'you learn something knew every day,' excellently. It then made me think of what I learned today? At first I couldn't really think of much, as I had a particularly boring morning in class followed by a short meeting with my tutor to discuss next weeks assessment procedure, but the more I thought about it the more I realised I learned....
By simply just going about my day to day tasks of making dinner, tidying my room and walking to and from uni there were lots of little things I learned, probably not very important or life changing things but none the less something that made a small impact on me, which in turn will effect how again I go about my daily routine tomorrow. I have always been someone who loves a routine, who loves things to stay static but I realised after looking at this quote that nothing really sticks to a routine perfectly because we all learn from something we done the day before and it changes what we do today.
Everything has this effect on us but nothing more than design, or the art of 'creating', things are designed all around us to make us think about how we can change some element of our life and make it better. So Geddes quote has got the art of design down to a t, we create things in order to make people think and we learn from what we and other people have created around us.
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