What if learning isn't fun?

My blog is called “Learning is fun”, but what if I’m wrong. Maybe learning can’t be fun. I think everyone agree with me when I say that you have to learn to read, write and calculate to live a normal life in our society. It also might be necessary to have some particular education to get a job. But is it fun to learn or is it just some boring stuff you just have to go through?

Well, first I have to figure out what learning is. Is it only at school you learn stuff, or do you also learn different things in your spare time when you surf on Internet, when you visit new places in your holiday, when you play the guitar or talk to your old grandfather? I think that everything you experience might turn into new knowledge, and suddenly you have learned something new without thinking about it. Isn’t that cool… learning without thinking about that you have to learned something?

I think that when you have new experiences, like repairing your bike that just broke down, talking English or even Spanish to the guy in the ice cream bar at the beach in Spain, you don’t think about learning. If you are very in to Volvo or BMW, and suddenly find an article on Internet about a brand new model that will be on the market soon, you have learned something new. If you like playing the guitar and manage to compose your own song, you have learned something new. I think that most of you agree with me when I say that these are not boring ways to learn, they even might be fun.

But what about school? Is everything you learn at school boring? If so, how can we turn the school into a more fun and interesting learning arena? I want comments!