Nick McGuinn, in the article “ How and why do we learn? ”, elaborates upon the individualistic nature of learning with the example of Li’s learning experience (LLE). He narrates a passage about Li’s learning experience (LLE) taken from the story “A Bone from a Dry Sea” written by Peter Dickinson. Li traveled outside the territory of her tribe to explore the world outside her immediate environment. She saw a spider that rapidly wove a loose web. Although, she was frightened by the spider and wanted to go back, but the curiosity to know what spider was doing kept her stay there. She saw how the seed-head got trapped in the web and got eaten by spider. When she got back to her tribe she tried to make her web through grass stems but was unsuccessful, however, she finally managed to pull off a working shrimp-net by using gourd fiber. Nick argues that innovation and learning takes place when an individual take risk to move outside his immediate environment for the purpose of exploring. Moreover, Nick compared Li’s example to Eve and Prometheus and found a prominent similarity that both took risk for the sake of knowing (knowledge). Further, Nick highlighted different categories of intelligence using the work of Howard Gardner and with “knowledge” at the bottom while “evaluation” at top of the categories. Furthermore, Nick introduced preconditions that needed to be fulfilled before the knowledge could be acquired using work of Maslow’s “human beings hierarch of needs”, such as, physiological needs, safety needs and aesthetic needs. The main focus of the of the reading revolves around the research question, “ how and why do we learn?” According to Nick Mcguinn learning takes place as a result of individual’s curiosity to explore and take risk for the sake of knowledge. However, Ian Gregory in response to aforementioned article states, that Nick Mcguinn claims education to be a “moral enterprise”, however, as we are the inheritors of learning of previous generations, hence learning is rather a “social enterprise”. Gregory argues that humanity advance is not parallel by advance in moral wisdom. He further argues that “learning is presented as too much an individual triumph in (1) how learning occurred (2) what was learnt”. In the concluding paragraph Gregory argues that education is the selective transmission of a given society’s culture. Nick McGuinn presents his stance by concretely backing it up with appropriate evidence. He makes use of works of various prestigious theorists. For example, he quotes; Li’s story from “A Bone from a Dry Sea” written by Peter Dickinson (1992); “Categories of intelligence” work of Howard Gardner; “Human Beings and Hierarchy of Needs” work of Maslow; “Eve and Prometheus” Metthews (1970). Moreover, Nick builds up his arguments with critical analysis of the work of these esteemed theorists. According to me it is an irrefutable reality that learning is both a “moral” as well as a ”social” enterprise. Both individualistic learning and collective learning are equally important and divide between them is artificial as both complement each other. Individuals are part of larger society and they effectively contribute to the knowledge of society. The world has developed because of efforts of both individuals and society as a whole.