From "How We Learn" - The Learning Skills Curriculum

• Learning is a process, not a thing that can be seen.

• Learning is an activity that involves the total central nervous system with the brain as the main processing and control center.

• Learning is the process of acquiring information, knowledge, wisdom, and skills.

• Learning occurs as a result of interaction with the person’s environment.

• Learning takes place in response to the stimulus received through the senses.

• Learning is a dynamic process. It is going on constantly, both consciously and unconsciously.

• New experiences provide new information; all information must be interpreted and processed on the basis of the old information that is already in the memory bank.

Learning takes place in a series of interrelated and connected steps.
Information must be:

1. Accessed by our senses and directed to our brain, then

2. Organized (processed/integrated) and moved into memory, then

3. Stored, accurately and orderly, so it can be

4. Retrieved, to be used for a specific purpose.