As
medical practitioners, we were often told that being a doctor means that we’re
committing ourselves to be a lifelong learner and guess what? It doesn’t just
end with us doctors. Everyone is a
lifelong learner. “It’s never too late to learn” as it often said. No matter
how old you are, there is never a time limit for those who want to learn.
I
think every child needs to view learning as a fun experience. Every single one
of us has to. It makes us look forward to learn new things, it helps us view
learning as a lifelong experience and
feel no burden by it. The possibility of being one (a lifelong learner —red)
might even excite us. When we’re already doing so, we’ll keep learning even
though our study has ended. We even start to develop symptoms – we start to
develop this itch, this hunger, we start to feel an immense desire to study.
Then we begin to dive deeper into one particular subject or we find ourselves searching
for any other interesting topics to swallow. Oh and spoiler alert: you won’t be
able to stop once it grabs you, the fun of learning will literally haunt you
for the rest of your life.
A
friend of mine is an avid learner. When I asked him what did he spent his
quarantine days on, he replied that he’s currently learning a lot of things. He
learnt how to operate a new business alongside some new set of skills. He honed
his piano ability, studied video-editing, learnt how to make a good
presentation etc. “I learnt many things in order to be able to do it whenever
necessary, so I won’t be surprised by then. I must be well-prepared for everything.” That “must” is what prevent
him from ever giving up.
I
joined this Facebook group named “Learning How to Learn” in which people share any
thoughts about how to learn in the form of writings, links, and many others to
develop our comprehension about learning how to learn. A place where we discuss
everything about learning. We share strategies, knowledge of how to improve it,
how to be better at it, et cetera.
And beats me, all of them are so much fun. I’m currently diving into Montessori
teaching method and Japan school system which successfully picked my interest.
Fun
thing about learning is we have to find our
own types of learning. I’m a visual and an auditory learner. It
means I learn better when I can see
some visuals while hearing its
explanation, like using videos. It gets better when my friend explained it
again to me means that I hear
someone describe things to me and after that, I take it even further by making
a colorful mind maps (visual), while
hearing some music (auditory). Another
type of learning is a kinesthetic. Those who study by moving their whole
body, like going on a field trip. It helps them absorb information faster and
better.
Another thing about learning is you have to find an interesting way to learn in order to save you from boredom. Miss Vera, my junior high English teacher managed to do that. I remember vividly how one day she sat all of us in the floor and told us to make a circle. She gave us a sentence then asked us one by one to change that sentence from one form of English to another.
"She buy that book for 1 dollar à she bought that book for 1 dollar à she has bought that book for 1 dollar (turns out she bought that book in a 1 dollar store so of course she got that price LOL kidding) well, back to my teacher, she then proceed to interrogative sentence which sound something like : Does she buy that book for 1 dollar? à Did she buy that book for 1 dollar? à Has she bought that book for 1 dollar?" And so on, and so on.
We did it repeatedly
until we remember all of it. What a way to apply English into real life. She is
one of the reasons why I love English so much. She made English fun, easy and
interesting for me.
So let us embark together to our journey of #FunLearning, shall we?
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