Are you learning or being trained?

Global traveler Shel Israel of Naked Conversations fame says "Learning should be joyful, but generally, it is not." I certainly agree, but I would drill down and distinguish between learning and training. I would suggest that true learning is always a joyful experience, but so often we try to force learning using a variety of tedious and painful tools and techniques more properly called training which focuses more on programming behavior than searhcing for enlightenment.

True learning is more like a journey of adventure, whereas mere training is more a trial by ordeals where learning is measured by the level of pain endured.

Learning can be measured as rising passion, whereas training is measured by seeking to eliminate fear and anxiety.

Learning build character, while training merely contrains it.

-- Jack Krupansky