Why do you Learn?
Jun 5th, 2007 by admin
Is it because through the years and for doing it for so long that you’ve made it an enjoyable and a pleasurable thing. Is it because your peers have forced you to learn. Or is your only cause for learning something for financial reasons. The for financial reasons learning, is the one feel most guilty about. It’s as if I have dishonored myself somehow. As if I have taken a step into a frame of mind where money will become the driving force of whatever knowledge I want to gain. How big a step I don’t know, Knowledge should be attained out of an innocence and an over all goal to help,
In my opinion, once the object has been learnt it becomes banal, obvious and Un- thought provoking. You either want to learn something else, or just stop learning because it has become too difficult, Yes! If you keep yourself busy and help people incessantly then the learn-ed thing is good. But what kind of education is out there where what you have learned can only help yourself, not others.
I feel that the journey of learning is more adventurous and thought provoking than living life with your learned knowledge. There’s no point in learning something if you’re not going to get anything out of it, financially or morally.
Another big question to ask yourself when trying to find your knowledge and education is how do I get it. Should I do it the proper and established way, like going to school or college, to be taught by teacher. Or the more risqué way. Teaching yourself.
There are many teach yourself books out there. The most obvious one I can think of is literally, the teach yourself series and the idiot’s guide.
Although self learning is well and good, there are drawbacks. If there is a sentence, or piece of dialogue you don’t understand there is no one there to answer your question. And there is no test to take at any time. Meaning that you can never be sure that what you have learned is set in stone so that you can use it confidently.