Other reason to rethink learning
Learning is good for your health.
Nussbaum, P.D. (2000). Learning: Towards Health and the Human Condition. In In Search of the Meaning of Learning. Paper presented at Presidential Session, International Conference of the Association for Educational Communications and Tecgnology, Denver, CO, October 25-28, 2000. [Online] Available http://www.learndev.org/dl/DenverNussbaum.PDF
Gross, C.G. (2000). Neurogenesis in the adult brain: Death of a dogma. In Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 1 (pp. 67-73).