Learning

As the saying goes, it is never too late to learn, and learning is what we have been studying since we were born. From when we were born to learn to talk and walk, to the age of the growing school to learn knowledge and culture, learning can be said to be everywhere.

Through today’s reading and learning, I have learned that learning can be divided into 8 principles, which are independent but closely related to each other. If I had used any methods in my first 20 years of study and life, I believed they were readiness, exercise and recency. In fact, the overall education model in China is relatively rigid, which I think is due to the fact that China has a large population and limited opportunities, so there is a lot of competition. Therefore, I had been exposed to more exam-oriented education since I was a child.

To be specific, I have been taught to study for exams since childhood. When I was in primary school, my mother would enroll me in various interest classes, which took up a lot of my spare time. Not only do I need to finish my homework in class, but I also need to finish a lot of extra homework. As much as I hate to do it, I hate to be inferior to others. What I didn’t know was that this was actually bad for my study habits and I didn’t feel the pleasure of learning.

After I came to foreign countries, I found that the education mode here is more flexible. Accordingly, I also need to spend more time on self-restraint and planning in private.

In fact, I was not used to such a learning mode at the beginning. Suddenly, I broke away from the supervision and discipline of the teacher, which made me lack of self-discipline in the beginning of my study and life, and also delayed some lessons. But I gradually found my own way of learning, and it felt even better than when someone was watching me. At the beginning, I did not know the reason for this, but after learning this course, I realized that many education modes and concepts in my country did not follow the basic learning principles, which led to my unhappy study.

The diagram above illustrates several important core about learning ideas in the simplest possible terms, which is exactly what I want to express. All the supervision and urging of the outside world are inferior to someone’s own love and desire for knowledge, and the correct learning method is the best teacher to stimulate the passion of learning. This is more useful than any other power.

Of course, although I have explored the road of learning for so long, I still have many shortcomings. For example, due to too many tasks, I forget that I am most willing to learn when I feel pleasant and satisfying, which indirectly leads to my low learning efficiency and the effect is just the opposite. And I am also trying to connect learning with things I am interested in to help me understand and apply them more deeply.
To put it into a nutshell, learning is everyone’s lifelong lesson, only find the right way will get the most benefit from it.

Reference

GrggU. [GrggU]. (2019, October 6). General Principles of Learning. [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnd_di_cqGQ&t=158s

Sovorel. [2020]. Core Adult Learning Principles. [Infographic]. https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=T8hLke6A&id=1FFAAE799845BB6621853F9C70EE1C422628B402&thid=OIP.T8hLke6AQub_b57AdootdAHaKK&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fsovorelpublishing.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2019%2f12%2fCore-Adult-Learning-Principles-infographic-BrentAnders.png&cdnurl=https%3a%2f%2fth.bing.com%2fth%2fid%2fR.4fc84b91ee8042e6ff6f9ec0768a2d74%3frik%3dArQoJkIc7nCcPw%26pid%3dImgRaw%26r%3d0&exph=3500&expw=2550&q=study+principle&simid=608016727777827371&FORM=IRPRST&ck=EFBFAD019EB0202E372551B65339F1E0&selectedIndex=0&ajaxhist=0&ajaxserp=0