Hope everyone is well. I had an experience this past weekend that I just have to share.

I recently decided to go to school and get a degree, so I signed up for the University of Phoenix Distance Learning Program, done totally on line. I ordered my books, downloaded the class syllabus and posted my Bio to the class Friday night. Bright and early Saturday morning, I pick up one of the books to get started with the required reading.

Now it is 6:00am on a Saturday, so I'm not real thrilled about reading 75 pages in a text book. By the time I got to page 2, that all started to change. Here is an excerpt of what I first read.

'Learning isn't just a matter of going back to school to sit in a classroom and listen to a teacher. It has little to do with tests or grades. Instead, peak learning springs from within: it is self education. Whether sparked by joy or driven by need. It expresses who we want to become what we want to become, what we want to be able to do or know about.'

Now I am wide awake and curious about what I just read. It sounds so familiar, and not at all what I expected to see in a collage text. Well it gets better...on page 4 the following quote jumps from the pages.

'The illiterate of the year 2000
will not be the individual who cannot read
and write, but the one who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.'

This is a quote I know without looking at the authors name. I'm now starting to wonder if this book is taking me where I think it is, but I can't believe it. This book took me back to MT. It's all here: the journals, facilitation instead of teaching, learning environments, forum, self-actualization, self-motivation, self-love, organic learning vs. mechanistic learning and much, much more.

I cannot believe my good fortune. I did not know that schools had finely picked up on what we were doing so long ago. This first class is about introducing new students to Peak Learning. I was so proud to go back to the class and tell them about my education at MT. This is the first time that I really grasped how much I learned at MT. The rest of the people in the class are just now learning to learn in a whole new way, something I learned a long time ago and am now about to relearn. There is so much more in the book. If you are interested the title is PEAK LEARNING by Ronald Gross. (Tarcher/Putnam books, NY)

I'm so excited, I just had to share this with you. MT is alive and well.

Herb