This is how we learn: the hard way.

There is no easy way: learning has to be a struggle. We want learning to be easy, in schools and in our lives. We want to avoid the inevitable hardships and struggle that learning requires, to short-circuit the process, which demands some sort of sacrifice, but, we can't, because learning is always hard.

Joe Rogan will learn the hard way. Some of these evangelical congregations, a lot of them in the South, are learning about covid and vaccinations the hard way.

Asa Hutchinson learned the hard way.

This is relevant in a larger, institutional way as well, for education and teachers and parents.

We learn the hard way. Students learn the hard way.

We have tried to remove the hard part from learning, the feelings of uncertainty and insecurity, the anxiety of not understanding something at once, and the horrors of having to try it over and over.

On the parental side, parents remove the barriers from their children's lives, the same barriers that provide the challenge that makes learning possible.

We will learn about climate change the hard way. We are learning right now, the hard way, as the newest IPCC report shows.

So it goes . . . .