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The Campaign for Learning has gathered interesting data
about the different environments where people would prefer to
learn. In answer to the question “In which three of the following
places do you think you personally learn most?”, we received the
following responses:

%
Home 57
Work 43
Libraries 36
College/university 29
On holidays/traveling 22
Museums 13
Adult learning centers 13
At school 11

Source: Campaign for Learning, Attitudes to Learning, MORI poll, 1998

It is interesting that the two places in which most people learn are
their own home and their workplace.

What about you? Where do you like to learn? Does this list hold true for you? How much chance
to you have to learn at work? Do you learn in different ways depending on where you are?

WHO YOU LEARN WITH

There is more to environment, of course, than merely place. It is
also about the other people who use it.
Human beings are social animals. Some of us choose to live
on our own, but the vast majority live in groups of two or more.
Even those who select privacy for their domestic arrangements seek
contact with other human beings throughout their lives. Not sur-
prisingly, much of our learning is informal and social. It depends on
the presence of other people.
This has been true from our earliest days, both as individuals
and as a species. Babies learn from their mother, their father, and
their family and friends. They watch and listen and imitate.
Eventually, they hear a word, say it, say it again, and make a pat-
tern out of the saying. Learning is an integral part of our social way