Man's Search for Meaning: Learning cannot be stopped

Man’s Search for Meaning

Written in 1946

In Austria

By Viktor Frankl

Medium: Paper

                Along with the Pragmatic Sanction and other similar documents, there is another thing that can set us free to learn or, if used incorrectly, can stop our learning. And it is displayed very well during WWII by a man named Viktor E. Frankl.

                War is brutal. But when there is great opposition, great learning can be accomplished. This is what Viktor Frankl discovered while in the concentration camps during World War 2. While there, he observed prisoners within the camps that, even under horrible conditions, they were determined not to let this get them down. They had learned that what happens around them does not have to have a negative effect on them, that they were still in control of how they felt and what attitude they had. This is a great example of learning because it shows that the only person that can stop you from learning is yourself and no one else. You are in control and that cannot be taken away. You have your own agency.