Which comes first? If we're always learning isn't there a connection with teaching too? Don't we pay attention to how we learn?
Having a dog is an enormous influence on becoming attentive to how learning happens.
More importantly, it increases the likelihood we will become the person our dogs think we are.
Who I was with Frida is not the same as who I am with Siegfried, but I have grown into both those people, they've blended. I'm far kinder, more patient and more tolerant than I was fifteen years ago.