{"id":481,"date":"2019-07-30T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T09:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2019-07-30T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T09:03:31","slug":"learning-and-path-following","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/30\/learning-and-path-following\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLearning\u201d and \u201cPath-following\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading Robert Macfarlane&#8217;s wonderful The Old Ways. Early on he connects learning and path-following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The relationship between thinking and walking is also grained deep into language history, illuminated by perhaps the most wonderful etymology I know. The trail begins with our verb to learn, meaning &#8216;to acquire knowledge&#8217;. Moving backwards in language time, we reach the Old English leornian, lto get knowledge, to be cultivated&#8217;. From leornian the path leads further back, into the fricative thickets ofProto Germanic, and to the word liznojan, which has a base sense of &#8216;to follow or to find a track&#8217; (from the Proto-Indo-European prefix leis-, meaning &#8216;track&#8217;). (To learn&#8217; therefore means at root ~ at route &#8211; (to follow a track&#8217;. Who knew? Not I, and I am grateful to the etymologist-explorers who uncovered those lost trails connecting &#8216;learning&#8217; with &#8216;path-following*.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading Robert Macfarlane&#8217;s wonderful The Old Ways. Early on he connects learning and path-following: The relationship between thinking and walking is also grained deep into language history, illuminated by perhaps the most wonderful etymology I know. The trail begins with our verb to learn, meaning &#8216;to acquire knowledge&#8217;. Moving backwards in language time, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}