Look into your wallet or purse

[C1ay]

If you find no library card you are not a self-learner. You are at best a dilettante, a dabbler in knowledge.

False! I don't like libraries because you have to take the books back, I'd rather own them. More and more and more books are becoming available electronically as well so I have no need for a library card.

[IDMclean]

I had a libary card. I checked out three books, returned two and lost one. I no longer carry a card because if I need to I will go to one of the three local libraries and read there. Zero chance of losing a book, and better enviroment for me to read than any of the places I have lived or any of the people I have lived with.

 

My home life has long been to volatile particularly in regards to material items.

 

All the while I had the books I checked out available to me on a more permanent basis. My mother has always had a personal library that is 1000+ books. On things like science, poltics, sex, religion, crime and many many works of fiction. My mother loves books and has encouraged us to read and seek out a diverse lot of subjects in many formats.

 

Little more than a century ago books were the best way to conveay messages, but in this day and age, like many other aspects of our society, the mediums and methods for conveaying information have grown beyond just books.

 

Take Wikipedia for instance. It is kept up to date, is free, quickly traversable, and readily available at my finger tips. When something can not be found on wiki, then I search Google, and failing that I find a good book on the subject.

 

My issue with books has always been finding one which appeals to me and engages me as more than just a passive audience. This is not to say that I do not enjoy reading, merely that most people don't know how to write a good book.

 

So in short, I would contend that the definition of library at this point extends beyond a physical location with texts, to even an ephemeral place of knowledge that is readily accessable to anyone who should desire to look and contains a vast wealth of information. In which case I would contend that I have a library card but it is not something material but an idea, and a connection.

 

Furthermore I would contend that I prove conclusively my status as a self-learner by participating in this forum, a place to discuss all manners of information with other fellow learners. A person can point me in the direction I need to go and can address my needs, as well as I can address theirs. A book can not do this, it can only passively give me instructions.

 

A person can challenge me to think objectively and critically of a subject, a book can instruct me on a set of rotes to follow to hopefully learn a subject. I would reason therefore that the book is not the insturment of my education but rather a tool in my educational tool set.

 

-Wise men read, and follow the foot steps of the great men before them. Only a Fool would question the methods of the wise men and set out to make foot steps of their own.

Recklessly a KickAssClown

[Southtown]

Look into your wallet or purse

 

If you find no library card you are not a self-learner. You are at best a dilettante, a dabbler in knowledge.

 

A self-learner has a multitude of clamoring questions, in a multitude of domains of knowledge, seeking answers. To discover the nature of reality and the answers to these questions one must have access to a library of books.

 

Most colleges have a ‘Friend of the Library’ card, which, for a small annual fee, will allow anyone to borrow books from that library.

 

After schooling is over the experience of learning begins. I think that the first step toward becoming a self-actualizing self-learner is to acquire at least one library card.

I have a library card, but I never use it. I have another card that gets me books without having to return them. :hihi:

[Drip Curl Magic]

just credit it. ewww. Credit.