N's learning

How to set a goal for N’s learning? What does it mean by learning? Is it to learn simply to become one of various techniques, to become oneself more like a technician, in the broad sense of the word, than like one who knows how to think and what to think of? Does learning a foreign language, for example, mean to master oneself a tool, a linguistic instrument, to communicate, more often than not, all that is trivial and redundant and to show oneself off, to mark oneself different in skin-deep vanity, or should it be tended towards more profound understanding and love of the culture underlying that language to give it its very life?

Too many questions left unanswered, yet to be the food of thought. It’s time to think this over for better involving myself in N’s learning at home.