I rather enjoy dipping into this book. It’s not one of those books to read from cover to cover. Rather it is a book to read a few pages at a time and to reflect on the wisdom in what was read.
In one scene the mole says “if first you don’t succeed, have a cake.” Mole likes cake and gets one for the boy… but eats it. So he gets another cake and strangely enough the same thing happens. On the next page, the boy wonders if there is a school of unlearning.
Often we focus on what we learn. This is what most schools test in us. Unlearning can be just as important. We can unlearn bad habits or self-centeredness. We can unlearn being too talkative, especially when someone needs us to listen.
Focusing on learning can be seen as a deficit model – what is missing from our lives. Perhaps the school of unlearning teaches that we are good enough and just need that little bit of shaping.
What is is that you will work to unlearn in your life?
