The Cave is another example of archetypal learning spaces. The cave is a place of quiet solitude and reflection. Just as campfires resonate deeply, caves have an equal status as a learning place. The cave has become a place where we have the opportunity to sit, think and reflect on our learning. The cave give students the opportunity to internalise new concepts, to sort and sift through these new ideas in order to incorporate them into existing beliefs and opinions.
We all have times in learning any subject when we need to internalise that knowledge. For Newton, it may have been under an apple tree, for Moses it was in the wilderness. For us, this internalisation of knowledge may take place during a walk in the woods but it is just as likely to take place while we are daydreaming or during a quiet moment in our day or in the relative seclusion and quiet of the library (another sacred space).
The Cave has been used throughout history as a place where self reflection often leads to insights or ah ha moments – this might have been Newton under the apple tree or Einstein daydreaming about relativity while working at the Swiss patent office.
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