I can’t accurately give you the Ten Commandments without looking them up. As with most people on the planet I’ve not stuck doggedly to all 10… I like to steal my kids sweets – they taste better that way!

Also, in my experience, airline emergency pamphlets (& safety briefings) are the things most airline passengers ignore either because (they think) they already know what they need to or they are more interested in the airline magazine or their fellow passengers.

Strictly speaking, in both examples if they just followed the set of instructions and had faith in the system everything would be “OK”. But even though it’s logical dogma isn’t enough…

Perhaps the key isn’t to think of learning as complicated i.e. something that’s hard to get “right” – whatever that means. Perhaps it’s more useful to look at learning as complex – something that is multi-faceted and wonderful in it’s complexity.

Dogma (ie “the 5 best ways to manage your budget”) might be a part of the way we learn but it’s just that. What are the other (perhaps complex) facets we need to service even when the learner says they only want dogma?