When thinking about learning, we usually think about school, teachers, class-rooms and learning things like writing, reading, math etc.
But learning starts much earlier, even before school we learn how to speak, to walk, to eat with fork and spoon, to tie our shoe laces and so on.
After we leave school learning also continues: for example my mother started to learn how to play tennis when she was about 40, so that she would have a shared hobby with my father. Another anecdote would be that last week I explained to my boss how to use an external hard drive. So, in that situation she became the student, I became the teacher and her office became a class room.
If we consider a class room to be any space, where learning takes place, then there are many more class rooms than just in school buildings. A museum can be a class room, a forest, the Internet, even a metro can be considered a class room if we learn from the people we observe there.
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I teach English at a private school. The romms are the regular type: grey carpeting, white walls and rows of white plastic coverd tables. When students enter class for the first time they usually sit down in row number 3 or 4 and, if possible, not directly next to another student. When I ask them to get up and walk around I can see questions marks forming on student's foreheads. It usually takes them a few sessions before they no longer wonder why sometimes tables and chairs are moved and books are put aside. That's the time to go on a trip outside the class room. When we come back they smile and I can see no question mark on their foreheads but exclamation marks.
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