The School Before Schools
By Michael Hebron
The history of the human race, our prehistoric ancestors and evolution are all much older than formally
organized schools. By looking at what happened during evolution to all living organisms we can also observe
the history of the nature of learning. This view of learning reveals how over millions of years human beings and
the human brain simultaneously grew up together.
The school before organized schools was located in the ever-changing real world environmental conditions
that all living organisms (including members of the human race) lived and unconsciously learned in. It was in
this environment that human beings unconsciously made instinctive choices that guided the human race in the
direction of enhancing the skills of surviving and thriving. Over time the development of human intelligence was
a result of a natural, dynamic, unconscious learning process that existed before organized schools existed.
From day one, often referred to as the big bang (some fourteen billion years ago) the school before
schools has existed. Every living organism on earth has been a biological unconscious natural learner. In the
school before schools the human race was developing the tools to survive and thrive in ever changing
environmental conditions. These skills included the ability to unconsciously use a variety of past experiences to
guide self-awareness, self-assessment, and self-development, to name a few self-elements that make up the
nature of unconscious learning.
The manner in which human beings successfully and unconsciously responded and adjusted to threats
from predators and to the ever-changing environmental conditions they were living under, are both examples of
how the nature of unconscious learning had its origin in our species survival skills. Learning has always been
at the core of living ones life and living has always been at the core of learning. The human race is designed
for success and not for failure. We are not meant to fail tests, make poor business decisions, or not reach our
potential in sports. We are meant to do, observe the outcome and adjust based on past experiences.
When acts of learning are brain compatible they are truly as natural as every beat of our heart, the flow of our
blood, and every breath we take. All of which are unconscious natural acts, as are acts of meaningful learning,
which had their origin millions of years ago in the school before schools as the human race struggled to
survive. Struggling is a biological imperative of meaningful learning.
Copyright 2009 Learning Golf Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Neurogolf Learning is a trademark of Learning Golf
By Michael Hebron
The history of the human race, our prehistoric ancestors and evolution are all much older than formally
organized schools. By looking at what happened during evolution to all living organisms we can also observe
the history of the nature of learning. This view of learning reveals how over millions of years human beings and
the human brain simultaneously grew up together.
The school before organized schools was located in the ever-changing real world environmental conditions
that all living organisms (including members of the human race) lived and unconsciously learned in. It was in
this environment that human beings unconsciously made instinctive choices that guided the human race in the
direction of enhancing the skills of surviving and thriving. Over time the development of human intelligence was
a result of a natural, dynamic, unconscious learning process that existed before organized schools existed.
From day one, often referred to as the big bang (some fourteen billion years ago) the school before
schools has existed. Every living organism on earth has been a biological unconscious natural learner. In the
school before schools the human race was developing the tools to survive and thrive in ever changing
environmental conditions. These skills included the ability to unconsciously use a variety of past experiences to
guide self-awareness, self-assessment, and self-development, to name a few self-elements that make up the
nature of unconscious learning.
The manner in which human beings successfully and unconsciously responded and adjusted to threats
from predators and to the ever-changing environmental conditions they were living under, are both examples of
how the nature of unconscious learning had its origin in our species survival skills. Learning has always been
at the core of living ones life and living has always been at the core of learning. The human race is designed
for success and not for failure. We are not meant to fail tests, make poor business decisions, or not reach our
potential in sports. We are meant to do, observe the outcome and adjust based on past experiences.
When acts of learning are brain compatible they are truly as natural as every beat of our heart, the flow of our
blood, and every breath we take. All of which are unconscious natural acts, as are acts of meaningful learning,
which had their origin millions of years ago in the school before schools as the human race struggled to
survive. Struggling is a biological imperative of meaningful learning.
Copyright 2009 Learning Golf Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Neurogolf Learning is a trademark of Learning Golf
