I say human, because learning is a relational event. OK, I know, I'm stretching here, but it's a stretch toward truth. We need one another, predecessors and successors, to make it happen. Stories live by telling. And sometimes forgetfulness is a sin.
Every generation has an educational responsibility.
God gifts us with folk who shape our beliefs and us. Take religious liberty. Though hard to believe, a glance back only one generation will find victims and victimizers of the Holocaust. Even a casual reading of U.S. history will find the longing for religious freedom among the prime movers. Wordsmiths, influenced by religiously persecuted colleagues, put pen to paper and wrote documents defining the landscape of the New World.