Meta-learning as a font of knowledge

This may seem obvious, but it is important for us to clarify. We need to arrive at some 1-3 sentence thesis on "how peers learn to learn" but we aren't there yet. If you have one, that is an answer to the question "How do peers learn together and do it well?" please e-mail it to htricker@yahoo.com.

If you put a blade to my throat, I'd say now "They learn by doing. First there's the 'baptism by fire' where awareness of how far away they are from their goal comes, if they have the social tools to survive that, then they have to endure the monotony of repeating the process over and over until the goal is realized. Even a shared journey of 10,000 miles begins with single steps."

Going back to the study group from the first principal, we learned by doing: we had the study group to do well on the test. We survived the 'baptism' with distractions being: not showing up at the library at all, spending the time gossiping about college hook-ups, drinking, studying for another class, etc. We managed to keep our attention on the task at hand: appropriately prepping for tomorrow's test. We endured the monotony of studying for multiple hours, and then the goal was realized.