On-line Learning

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Communicating our message is made doubly tricky because we have to observe a non-pushy, non-violent approach at all times. As vegans we have to deal with potential recruits with what looks like passivity, so that they won’t be put off. Vegans don’t always realise this.

We have to wait for permission from them to go ahead, and have enough faith in people, that they’ll tell us when they’re ready to listen. The most efficient way this can happen is to start from scratch.

Vegans, when trying to ‘educate’ omnivores, need to go back to basics, back to laboriously trawling through recipes and fact sheets about what happens to chickens in cages. Omnivores also need to go back to basics in order to untangle the misinformation they’ve been swallowing from other sources. It’s humiliating for vegans and for omnivores. No one wants to be the schoolteacher here and no one wants to be taught like a school kid.

There’s so much to learn, but to our rescue has come an unexpectedly useful tool, the on-line education facility.

Maybe face-to-face instructors are now redundant. We no longer have to go to a teacher or an ‘authority’ for information. We can do it for ourselves. The Internet opens a DIY door, referencing web sites, blogs, books, videos, etc. We can do it in our own time, getting information to find out what we need, indeed almost everything we need.