Where does the "depth" of learning lie?

Regarding yesterday's "What is the role of education?," I wrote about the "Realization of Proactive, Interactive, and Deep Learning (Classroom Improvement from the Perspective of 'Active Learning') (Image)" found on the MEXT website's page for "2017/2018 Revised Courses of Study, Explanations, etc."

Regarding the image of "deep learning," I feel like I sort of understand (what they are trying to say). However...

I wrote that. But... but, really.

・Interrelating knowledge
・"Deeply understanding"
・Finding problems and thinking of solutions
・"Creating"

Assuming there is such a thing as "deep learning," aren't all the items in this list things that appear as byproducts of "deep learning"?

What I mean to say is that this is not the image of "deep learning" itself.

The "deep learning" that I can feel right now is, for example, the following.

Among "knowledge," there are things you take in because you feel a need for them, and things you pick up, look at, savor, or let slip by without really knowing what they will become.

You don't get much "depth" from knowledge you remember because you have a need for it. After all, you're just taking it in because you need it, right?

On the other hand, there is also knowledge that, after a certain amount of time—it might be half a year, or it might be decades—you suddenly remember, "Oh, so that's what that was," or realize, "That thing from back then is useful here and now."

Very young people might not understand this yet, but it exists.

There is depth in that kind of learning.

I have lived for 40 years now, and I expect such realizations will only increase from here on out. It would be interesting if they did, and it makes me think that getting older isn't so bad.

(To be continued)

The top page of "Michikusa no Ie: Kotonoha Sanbo" has a "daily calendar" on it; I turned one page, and it is May 17th. Today is a story about sewing work.

*The "daily calendar" is updated roughly every morning.