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1. A Story
Over the years, have you perhaps lost sight of the fact that
you are a brilliant learner?
"Huh?" you might ask. "Are you talking to me?"
Here is a story to illustrate my point.
I was sitting in a restaurant talking to a Japanese boy in
the first grade. I asked him how he was liking school and he
quickly exclaimed that he hated school. I asked him why he hated
school and he said, "Two reasons. One you have to sit still
all the time, and two, there are too many things you have to
remember."
I told him I agreed that being required to sit still was really
"dumb". On the other hand I said "I think you
remember much more than your teacher realizes." This remark
caught him by surprise and I felt like he didn't know whether
to agree with me or ask me if I was crazy.
Speaking in Japanese, I asked the boy if he was learning some
English. He said he was, and that English was really difficult.
I told him that English was actually quite easy to learn, and
that most every American child can speak English prior to entering
grammar school.
The boy sat quietly for a moment and then replied, "But
Japanese children can speak Japanese prior to entering school!"
"Yes." I said, "Since you have already proven
how smart you are in learning Japanese, I am sure you will also
do great with English."
Once again the child was at a loss for words.
The restaurant we were at had heavy paper covering the tables
and there were crayons for children to draw with while waiting
for the meal to arrive. Noticing the boy had a toy replica of
a "MIG" fighter aircraft with him, I picked up a crayon
and drew a simple picture of the plane and said, "This
is a MIG" as I drew the letters MIG. Next I drew a pig
and said "This is a PIG." as I wrote the word "pig."
Then I drew a branch and said "This is a "TWIG"
as I wrote the word "twig".
Next, I drew a very simple picture of a PIG sitting with a
TWIG in its mouth, while flying a MIG, and I said, "See,
the PIG is in the MIG, with a TWIG." feeling like I was
replicating Dr. Seuss.
The boy laughed, picked up a crayon, and began quickly drawing
all sorts of things. Each picture that he drew, I labeled in
English, and he was quite willing to repeat the English words
after me. "Wow he said, if school was this much fun I wouldn't
mind going!"
How about you?
Were you forced to learn in a specific manner in school?
Did your teacher help you understand the best way for YOU to
learn?
Did your teacher acknowledge you were a talented learner?
Every teacher, parent, and student needs to realize that each
human being has their own unique way of organizing and thus
understanding and remembering incoming information. When we
lose sight of this, children come to dislike school and begin
to believe that something is wrong with them. What a great disservice
to humankind!
Wouldn't it be great if we were able to foster school environments
that adapted to the children, rather than forcing the children
to adapt to the school?
Please take a moment and consider...
You have your own unique and high quality way of learning.
How can you better support yourself to be all that you truly
are?
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2. Seishindo Learning Theorem #1
Your mind wanders in order to generate meaning, define identity,
build a model of the world that makes sense to you personally,
and thus adapt and learn. Your mind wanders in order to relate
incoming information/experience to "something else"
that has been encountered in the past. When you relate one piece
of information to another piece of information, you organize
and make sense out of your past by relating it to the present,
and vice versa as well. What you learn in the present can help
you to have a new understanding of what you have learned in
the past, but often, what you have learned in the past impedes
you from learning something new. If you encourage and harness
the wandering of your mind you can have a NEW understanding
of something you ALREADY know, by relating your previous experience
and knowledge to new information.
Information that you do not organize in a way that is meaningful
for you will tend to remain random in nature, and thus not be
readily available for future recall and use. Organization of
information is a creative task that requires you to personalize
and transform incoming information and thus bind it to structures
that already exist within you. Learning is the artful combining
of diverse and sometimes seemingly contradictory fragments of
incoming information into a new integrated whole.
The verbatim recall of information is usually of little lasting
value. You learn and remember best when you creatively personalize
information in such a way that is memorable for you.
Effective learning is facilitated by a subtle and sophisticated
awareness of what is taking place in and around you. What you
do not perceive you cannot organize and learn from.
3. Our subscribers' section
We thank Dorothy heartily for her kind words about our newsletter
and website!
Dorothy Ranta-Ojala writes:
Hello, i have been a member with you for a few months. I love
your stories and information guides. I was driven to start www.WomensSelfEsteem.com
by all the women that I have noticed on line looking for a neutral
venting ground. Many of the sites are costly and totally go
away from their original idea; this is where I felt compelled
to open my site. I would love to link with you and your sites
as there is so many uplifting articles in here. Thank You.
Dorothy
Dorothy@womensselfesteem.com
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