You have been cheated your whole life. Cheated by your parents, teachers, principals, Boards of Education and politicians.Most of these folks didn't know they were cheating you, they were simply treading the well worn path of those who went before them. What you needed were study guides that would let you map your own course, but instead, you were cheated for convenience sake. You were cheated because people didn't make the link between normal human development and the education process. Finally, you were cheated because modern life requires parents (adults) to be separate from their family five days a week, eight hours a day, and it was necessary to find someplace to stash the kids.Think about a newborn child. Little knowledge, unstructured awareness, everything around them is new and without context. Within three years they are speaking their native tongue better than a motivated student will speak it in five five years of language classes. And an infant doesn't get structured classes, he or she gets"Heyhowsmyliddlefella -gooochiegoochiegooo- thatsmyliddleman whaddagoodboy whaddagoodboy"Try and make sense of that, if you're learning english with no other instruction.
Learning is a natural process that is genetically programmed into your brain. Unfortunately, what happens at school is not necessarily in line with your genetically programmed process.We all have different learning styles. Until you know and understand your own, the whole activity of learning will be more difficult than it needs to be. You may wind up trying to learn through a method optimized for someone else. A proper study guide would ensure that you could use techniques optimized for your personal style. Bookmark the link below, and visit it when you are done here for a free learning style assessment. It will help you determine your predominant styles and what you can do to get maximum results.
What does a year at school cost you? Are you paying $7,000.00, $10,000.00 or even $15,000.00? How many hours a week of class time? Is it 18, 20, 25? How many weeks of classes? As many as 25? At $10,000.00 a year for you schooling costs, and a heavy work load of 25 hours a week, you are paying over $16.00 and hour to sit in class or labs. What are you getting out of it?Don't kid yourself that as long as you get a credit, it's good enough. We all know who get's the good offers when it comes to employment. The top 5% of each graduating class get the plum positions.But there's something you should remember. The difference between first and second place may be only incremental, but the rewards can be enormous. In a horse race a hundredth of a second may make the difference between a first place finish worth fifty thousand dollars and a second place finish worth twenty-five thousand dollars. The winner didn't have to be twice as fast, just faster. It's the same in the job market. When a big firm is recruiting and wants to fill a half dozen entree level positions, you don't have to be better than everyone else, you just need to beat out one person for the last remaining job.
Throughout this website, I have provided information that will help you do better in school, and in life. The ability to read faster and remember more will help you in almost everything you do. The ability to take good notes, and an improved memory will move you forward in your career as well as in school. But you need to commit yourself. Commmit to making steady improvements to your knowledge and abilities. Dr. Don Wetmore, who provides Time Management Seminars like to point out the advantages of small, steady efforts towards improvement.He suggests that in one year, reading one hour a day in a particular subject area (that's 365 hours of reading on one topic) you would acieve equivalent knowledge to taking a year of college in that area. (Do the math — number of hours of class in a college year, minus electives, minus unrelated credits in minor subjects probably only 220 hours of class time). Along the same line, Dr. Wetmore asks what impact it would have on your daily efforts if you spent five minutes a day trying to make things more organized in your work area (whether it's your office cubicle, homework area or kitchen). These are not revolutionary ideas, but you don't need a revolution to turn your life around, just persistent effort.
Your time is valuable. The results you get out of college and high school are important. They will have a significant impact on which direction your life takes. Learning how to learn will have a significant impact on your whole life. In todays world, learning is continuous. Your satisfaction in life, your career, and the choices that are presented to you will, in large part, be determined by how well and how willing you are to learn.
About Author:
Janet Daetton is a teacher and private tutor working at school for 8 years. She has an educational blog with tips for students and lifelong learners. Her first business experience is being an independent consultant for the purchasing essays online database, her goal is to create a free educational online course for adults.
