writing about learning

I can always tell when I've learned something from an experience. I usually end up learning things the hard way and that is through experience. So if I learn not to do something from a bad experience then I won't do that thing again or if something turns out great I may do it again. I always realize when I have learned something from a course that I am in. Later on in the course or in a different course I can always look back on things I know and have learned and use them in whatever I am doing at that time. I often use what I have learned when I am talking to my friends about school or about their assignments and I can use what I know to help my friends. The evidence I look at to answer those questions are whether I can use what I learn in everyday life and even when I move on from that course or that experience, I still know what I learned and can use it to my advantage. I think that when we learn things that transform our beliefs and alter our lives then they are more often remembered and used in the future. I remember my senior year in english class I had a teacher that made us talk about religion. I fought for what I believe in and so did the people in my class. My beliefs weren't altered because I believe what I always have but it made my beliefs stronger as well as gave me a chance to see what other people believed. Growing up in my family and in the church I never heard much of other people's beliefs and what they are willing to fight for and that conversation in my english class and learning what I did has stuck with me. I remember everything that was said that day. When I learn things that don't have such an impact on me I still remember them, just not as vividly as if something did alter the way I feel. But most of the time I prefer to learn just on the surface because I can't handle having my world rocked every time I learn something new. I think the way I learn is very comparable to how other people learn in and outside of my classroom. The information that I do retain is always very easily relayed to others and I hope that information retained by others can be relayed to me. I don't know if others judge the way I learn the way I do but I think that an experience in the course can especially help learning and keep students retaining information.