Art of Learning and Study Skills: Something about the Self-Study and Learning (SSL)

Teaching and learning are two wheels of human progress in all fields. Teaching is effective if learning is constructive and if learning is to be made constructive, the students cannot do it without self-study. By self-study, we mean the study that is carried to and for comprehension without external help in the form of teaching, tutoring and counseling.

At the same time we have to accept that the ability of self-study is unlikely to be developed in the total absence of teaching, tutoring and counseling. For example, someone helps us to learn to ride a bicycle and the stage comes when we do not need any helper. Let us not forget that to win a medal in cycling, we need help and our own efforts are surely flowers on the seeds sown by our coach and trainer.

Learning is an art for the acquisition of knowledge, truth and reality. Moreover, it involves organization, synthesis and integration of old and new experiences of our lives. We have to keep up our individuality, creativity and originality, which is not possible without self-study. Self-study is an experience of learning for the betterment of our development in all directions.

So we will discuss self-study and learning as one, calling it SSL, these two together form what we can call an art of acquiring, balancing and developing educational life to any type by means of an art learning.

Let us now try to elaborate SSL. It is suggested that we should understand SSL in depth and its relevance to our daily life otherwise such discussions reading this book will be effective only for 3-4 days. But we wish it should help us to acquire peace of mind before we emerge back to fundamental elements of life. Thanks!

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