Peace and quiet - no talking or music.
Feeling at peace in myself and not hungry or anxious or self conscious.
Space to spread out papers or ideas like a bed, floor or table if its academic writing type learning.
Time to assimilate on my own. Time to draw my own flowcarts, lists, diagrams. Time to try out phrasings, fingerings, steps, etc on my own.
I have almost never had an ¡®aha¡¯ moment in the company of a teacher - they might suggest, open doors etc and i will keep up mostly but until i am alone with the material it isn¡¯t integrated.
I also need things to be visual so if i have received information verbally or in a long unbroken paragraph i need to write it down or sketch it out straight away!
Looking at that list i can see why a peaceful home is a good place for learning for me, and a school would only be better if it were more spacious and peaceful than home. When i was at school/college i took notes in the lectures and lessons but all the real learning happened later, at home, and i wonder if we had had the Internet then and the lectures were recorded like they are now, how much i would have attended. Probably only the lectures my friends were at...
belinda dutch