We learn best when we are seeking for knowledge. However knowledge alone is not enough to really learn. Apply the knowledge and real learning happens.
Too many teachers are steeped in the industrial model of education where a teacher is the authority figure in the class, controls the class, and spoon feeds information to the students. This is about the least effective way for people to learn and really should be changed.
A more effective way of learning is where the teacher leads and the students teach. For example a teacher asks a thought provoking question and several students share their thoughts about it and a discussion follows where insights and experience are added – now everyone participates and everyone benefits. All are edified together when learning is done this way.
I hope we can change our mind set about effective learning, away from what is entrenched in our education systems for the last hundred years and back to a classical way of learning. We’d all be better for it.
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