In his paper, "A Word for Learning," Seymour Papert wonders why theories of teaching have received far more attention than theories of learning, and he addresses the fundamental issues of what we mean by the word "learning." He invites us to revisit our notions of learning through examining a personal experience. Using the example of learning flower names, Papert illustrates two important aspects of learning: "The simple moral is that learning explodes when you stay with it: A full year had passed before the effect in my mind reached a critical level for an exponential explosion of growth. The more complex moral is that some domains of knowledge, such as plants, are especially rich in connections and particularly prone to give rise to explosions of knowledge." The time to build personal connections is an essential ingredient strikingly absent from most school learning situations.