Education can play the most important and significant role in student's life if it develops self-dependence, direction and guidance in the student. Self-study and learning is for self-orientation for all fields, faculties and focuses of our life.
As we know that spoon-feeding is harmful for grown up children, similarly spoon-feeding of education is a poison for originality, creativity and individuality.
Self-study and learning is nearer to education than all the instruction, training schooling, literacy, information, teaching, tutoring, counseling and guidance because even if we combine all of the latter factors and leave self-study and learning we will be in reality, uneducated.
We find that many of the philosophers, scientists, mathematicians and other such people were not best contributors to human civilization because of the school, college or university studentship, instead they were educated by means of self-study and learning which was their guide for great discoveries, inventions and other may research works.
In short, self-study and learning for peace of mind is life of education without which body, mind and soul cannot work together to awake the innate powers to interact with all that is external and internal to any human being. However, our contact with education without self-study and learning gives us some glimpses of some specific and situational abilities and skills to interact with external.
Some people may call it personality development; of course it is personality development though to the extent that it creates some connection with external without any flow of balance of internal and external personalities. Learning how to study should begin in the elementary schools; it is self-study and learning developing together which is an answer to how to study. Learner cannot learn how to study without the will to learn and without a definite goal.
He or she can be given this will to learn only by making the task interesting and necessary for his or her happiness. The happiness that develops learning and self-study is not the happiness from a bribe. These joys do not last long and are over when the grade is received, is not it. Thanks!
© Dr. Harmander Singh (© Protected and archived by WorldWideOCR.com Seal™ File)
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