 Meaning and nature of learning. What is meaning of learning? Do you think that everything that you are getting is learning? Whatever you are wrote memorizing that is learning. Whatever the information is you getting it is learning. You are storing information into the mind that is learning. And you think that you are learning. You are reading book and you think that I am a great learner. So the individual is constantly interacting with and influenced by the environment. Whatever you are learning from environment. Whatever you are getting from environment. Is it learning? The experiences make seem to change or modify his behavior in order to deal effectively. Now this line is very important. Learning means that you are getting information and according to information you are modifying your behavior. You learn that aggressiveness is not good habit. So did you change your behavior? If you change your behavior that is called learning. And very common example that usually we give to get understanding of learning. That there is a hot kettle and then when you just touch it accidentally then you will burn your hand. Next time you will be very careful. You will not touch the hot kettle. It is called learning. Whenever you will get some negative reward. Then you will not repeat the action that is called learning. When you will bring change into your personality and you will again repeat it because it was positive for you. That is also called learning. So basically modification of behavior is called learning. And I will just you know interlink with some other things. That we said that when we cheat from one place then we should not repeat that action again. So that we do not cheat again. That is why Islam said that the moment is not repeated from one place to another. That means when you experimented and you found out that this is how people cheat. Or if I do this work then I will be cheated. Or if I do this work then there will be negative effects. So we stop doing that work. If there are positive effects then we do that work again. So this is a kind of change in the behavior of your father. It is a change in your habits. When you wake up late, you always reach school late and you cheat. You have changed. Now you will not wake up early. This is called the change. This is the modification in the behavior. So that is called learning. You have learned that I always take a lot of damage. I go every day and I cheat. So it is better if I should change my habit to avoid cheating. So attitude, interest or other things that you modify yourself. The things that give you harm, they leave you. The positive that gives you benefit, they adopt you. So that is called learning basically. So the meaning of learning doesn't mean that you are getting information blindly and you are storing it into your mind and whenever you need then you are just getting it back. This is not called learning. That you have the degree of MFIL, MA and PhD. You think that you are a learner but if you did not change yourself that you are highly qualified but your habits are same showing that you are uneducated. You cannot control your aggressiveness. You cannot behave well with other people. So you are not honest at this stage. So what you have studied so much. If it has not put any effect on you, if it has not changed in your personality then how can we say that it is learning? What have you learned? You have only stored information. You have not learned anything. Learning will happen in the same way. We will call it learning from which you will get a change in your personality. So change, modification is called learning and this is actually the meaning of learning. So the more you interact with the environment the more you are getting hurt. If you are revising the same work then you are not learning anything. So after having a change do something new. You have modified your behaviour that you should be careful. This is also modification. This is also modification to do something new. This is also modification to discipline yourself. So modification of behaviour is called learning.