Experience is the best teacher #1: theory

Youth (and all of us) learn lessons better by experiencing it rather than just by reading or being told. This is true of big formal things learned in school or little practical things like being told “the stove is hot, don't touch.” This is about more than “active learning” but about experiencing life lessons. A few guidelines and then I'll give several posts on specific issues.

• The learning may need to be in a controlled environment
• The learning needs to be explicit – they will not intuit why and what they are learning.
• Failure is a learning experience as long as it is not excessively damaging, physically or emotionally