Learning (and Unlearning) later in life

Our topic is introduced by a reading from The Wisdom of Morrie: Living and Aging Creatively and Joyfully, written by Morrie Schwartz and edited by his son Rob. Morrie invites us to make a choice in our later years to grow and change, in short to continue to learn. Our conversation explores the ‘unlearning’ we may need to do in order to grow, such as throwing off our binary thinking and seeing life as messy instead of black and white. We explore traditional education and how it is different from the type of learning that fits for us now. We talk of focusing our energy and becoming involved in things based on new moral insights and empathy as we age. Although we may want to be activists, we acknowledge that may cost us when encountering people in opposition to us. In the end, it is our humanity that binds us and our willingness to view learning as a continuum that shows us a path forward.