Musing From the Front Desk

Good Evening fellow library friends!

It's been quite a while since I've put fingers to keyboard to record my musings.

A LOT has gone on in our world and while I'd love to discuss everything that's been happening, right now this post is more for my SMM class than an official musing.

However, we can muse for a few minutes on education and how important it is to have a well rounded education. Education need not come from the walls of a university nor a formal Tech college.

Nay, edcuation can come in the form watching YouTube videos, reading blog posts, watching a mentor, etc.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary (available to use online here... http://webstersdictionary1828.com/ ) states

EDUCA'TION, noun [Latin educatio.] The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.

How times have changed since then!

Now, when you look up the word "Learn" see what happens.

LEARN, verb transitive lern.

1. To gain knowledge of; to acquire knowledge or ideas of something before unknown. We learn the use of letters, the meaning of words and the principles of science. We learn things by instruction, by study, and by experience and observation. It is much easier to learn what is right, than to unlearn what is wrong.

Now learn a parable of the fig tree. Matthew 24:32.

2. To acquire skill in any thing; to gain by practice a faculty of performing; as, to learn to play on a flute or an organ.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but little at a time.

3. To teach; to communicate the knowledge of something before unknown.

Hast thou not learned me how to make perfumes?

[This use of learn is found in respectable writers, but is now deemed inelegant as well as improper.

LEARN, verb intransitive lern.

1. To gain or receive knowledge; to receive instruction; to take pattern; with of.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly - Matthew 11:29.

2. To receive information or intelligence.

I love words!!!

I challenge you to look up the modern definitions and see just how far we've come!!!