the development of humain learning

learning is as old as humankind.indeed curiosity and the capacity to learn are among the defining characteristics of what it means to be humain .for many hundreds of generations ,people learned only trought theirown experience ,and to a lesser extent ,trought the observation of others .gradually.however.as language became more complex & sophisticated ,it was possible to codify what had been learned by previous generations & in distant locations & to pass information about unseen phenomena .in most early cultures wich relied on oral transmission of knawledge ,people had highly evolved capacities for listening and for remembering ;however ,compared with most people living today in advanced modern societies ,the amount and complexity of information to be dealt with by an average being was clearly bounded and relatively slowly changing.
with the invention of writing ,it became possible to pass on insights ,and experiences over greater distances and a larger number of generations howeverr,at the same time as the amount of information that an individual could acquire expanded significantly ,like expectancy also increased and many many people found that they had more leisure time in wich to think and to learn .
today,leaning is perphas not as much a matter of like and death as it was for our distant ansectors ,nevertheless most people have some natural inclination to learn and with time and means at their disposal ,learnig is an important aspect of our lives .much of this learning occurs incidentally and is umplanned ,in the course of doing something else ;indeed when asked many people fail to recognise this as learning at all .other learning ,however,is more intentional and deliberate .some of it is formalised in the sense that their is some explicit instruction & very commonly some assessment of learning outcomes.but a very large proporition of it is planned ,managed and evaluated by the idividual him-or herself .of this, some depends on participating in or observing particular activities ,some depends on interactions with other people -either
individually or in groups and some on reading and writing .in all these cases ;the learner requires certain skills and attributes if his or her learning is to progress successfully.