Fear of Learning

Today’s post was born as a personal reflection after analyzing several situations in my inner circle and myself. Today I would like to talk about a serious problem that we can find in every teaching–learning process and that is usually overlooked: the fear of learning.

This issue has nothing to do with any pursued pedagogical strategy or the platform used and it affects all of us, often without being aware of it, limiting us in our personal and professional development.

I must confess that the trigger for this article comes from a personal experience I had yesterday. I started going to the gym at the age of 31, a strange and unknown world for this writer. My trainer, in my first supervised session, made me exercise with an experienced person, and I experienced first-hand the feeling of fear or intimidation I’m referring to, and that you may have felt identified with some time.