Learning Center: From Classroom-Specifics, To Status Quo

In the long time that education has subsisted to serve society’s needs, it comes no surprise to learn that the sector successfully pulled a lot of learning structures and strategies.  Others have long gone to become obsolete, while others flourished.

A perfect example for a flourishing strategy is the Learning Center.  At its early conception, the strategy was restricted to a portioned area in a classroom or a room in a whole school edifice.  This portion was expected to house a categorised set of learning materials, like the computer room.  Apart from this characteristic, it is also especially designed to simulate a particular level of learning, or style.

However, those attributes have grown, and so were its roles.  The term, Learning Center, now carries a distinct but generalised reference to educational institutions.  For these institutions to qualify as learning centres, they will have to acquire acknowledged status rankings.  In layman’s terms, be pegged as the best or one of the bests.

The transition of the term’s connotation is quite astounding.  Its rise into being an umbrella term isn’t exactly senseless.  For one, the two connotations are parallel in its message:

• That to be a Learning Center means to empower independent explorations, and celebrate innovations.  To be such implicates the aversion to phobias consisting of fear of being told to be wrong.  As a result, students become fearless inventors and problem-solvers.  

This message makes students vie for admissions to such educational institutions.  At a younger scale, this also pushes parents to choose for such centres for their children – that is, if they want a more sustainable approach to facilitating their children’s learning.  Most of all, it puts everyone at the position of aspiring to go to a utopian learning environment – a gift for students, and source of pride to parents.a