LEARNING - IV

 

LEARNING - IV

Being unable to read even this notes, parents and students look for tuition teachers who would make the student read the notes in a better way. Enough if I say – please look at the number of failures in all the I Semester courses at collegiate level – be it Professional or academic. Why? The pattern of learning and evaluation at the lower levels do not provide for Comprehension.  Ironically all the high-scorers flock in to professional streams armed with a pedestrian approach to learning. It is time people realized the difference between learning and scoring. Scoring without learning is quite rampant.  Undoing these bad methodologies is an exercise spanning over the later adult stages. Therefore all children should take to reading the text. That would give them the confidence and the proficiency for all their life. Text is a more authentic territory, beyond which nothing can ever happen.  All frontline works of Science and Technology require a clear and deep analysis. Such an activity demands thorough familiarity with all concepts, well integrated to authentic information. For all situations, authenticity is the most essential component of decision-making. It is vital that adherence to the text is inculcated even at the school levels to promote “reading the original” to collect information. At later stages, referring to the works of authorities becomes both natural and comfortable. Understanding a concept as it should be is the most important. The explanatory notes may not satisfy the rigid demands of acumen.  Learning higher concepts in later studies becomes difficult, as habits die hard.

Better if children learn the right approaches early than suffer at higher levels later. Elders need to bestow attention on to these requirements. Learning by motivation will come through genuine approaches of hard labour. Labour will reward. On reaching higher stages, it is desirable to interact with persons who are better than us. Children should never hide doubts. Clearing a doubt is a delight to the knowledgeable. Always seek their association.  These are some approaches to betterment. 

Other territories:  An immediate offshoot of education is communication. At least this is what the world at large expects of educated men and women. I am not referring to the ability for communicating in English alone. My suggestion is to the process, irrespective of the language. Communication is a strategy of using the minimum number of right words. In any language, clarity should be supreme.  

Right words are possible only if we are familiar with them. Familiarity is a product of contact; contact with good writings. Everyday we learn from everything around. Choosing the right sources for authenticity is very important. Lack of familiarity is a source of fear. Fear can assume the proportions of a syndrome unless eradicated early. A good ambience can help to get over such mental blocks. It is for us to choose our circle of friends from whom we can get the support. It may be books, references or even conversation as a form of expressing ideas. Sadly we often choose lesser mortals as our companions. These days we need to also get equipped for using the computers. Computer literacy is an added advantage to job seekers. Our scenario is a vexing blend.  People have education without computer literacy or Computer-literacy without much education.

The entire population has to settle for lower positions because of the weak combination. One sincere advice to all people is –please try to learn as many Indian languages as you can. It will enhance the scope for your employment and help traveling in other regions. The real hall- mark of education is to confer on us the ability to serve anywhere on the globe. Mustering the right skills by proper learning is an ideal asset for a true empowerment. If education fails to empower, it is an impoverished one. Education is ultimately the ability to be respectably relevant to self and society. Only correct learning can provide that.

Learning is not passing examinations, but a process of analyzing any information.                                                                     Prof. K.Raman