Cooperation among learners speeds it. A genuine learning community is always better for learning than a collection of isolated individuals. Learning Takes Place on Many Levels Simultaneously . Learning is not a matter of absorbing one little thing at a time in linear fashion, but absorbing many things at once. The brain, after all, is not a sequential, but a parallel processor and thrives when it is challenged to do many things at once.
People learn best in context.
Things learned in isolation are hard to remember and quick to evaporate. We learn how to swim by swimming, how to manage by managing, how to sell by selling. Positive Emotions Greatly Improve Learning . Feelings determine both the quality and quantity of one's learning. Negative feelings inhibit learning.