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Built on more than thirty years of research, the Habits of Mind (referred to throughout this document as the Habits) provide a framework for student learning based on an understanding of what qualities allow people to be successful, regardless of their career or focus in life.
* Remaining open to continuous learning. This volume brings together--in a revised and expanded format--concepts from the four books in Costa and Kallick's earlier work Habits of Mind: A...
The Habits of Mind strategies that are highlighted in this chapter include: managing impulsivity, listening with understanding and empathy, applying past knowledge to new situations, gathering data through all senses, and remaining open to continuous learning.
“Remaining open to continuous learning,” Costa, Kallick, and Zmuda (2023) write, “is an essential characteristic of self-directed, continual, lifelong learners” (p. 106). Instructors should model being open to continuous learning by admitting when they do not know something.
“Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.” John Dewey
Remaining open to continuous learning is an essential characteristic of self-directed, continual, life-long learners and should be nurtured both at home and in school. Self-
Teachers as Continuous Learners. “the greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” John F. Kennedy. Intelligent people are in a continuous learning mode. They are invigorated by the quest of life long learning. Their confidence, in combination with their inquisitiveness, allows them to constantly search for new and better ways.
