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Articles: My Thoughts | Where and how does learning start?
- Mr. ABHISHEK PILLENDLA
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Where and how does learning start?
Have you wondered where does the process of learning start? What is the most important factor that triggers the learning process? How should one define the right and wrong way of learning?
There have been definitions and lectures about what is good and what is bad. Right through our schooling we have been learning things that the textbooks have told us. Also what our teachers had shared with us. But have you ever wondered where the process of learning really did start?
Learning is a never-ending process they say. And how true it is? Every human is a student in his long journey from life to death. Learning the lesions that life has to offer to each of them. But this process starts from the womb of the mother wherein the child learns a lot more things. Actions that are considered involuntary, things that are thought to come naturally are all learnt by the infant in the womb of the mother.
Right now! Learning starts in the womb of the mother. So what? What are we trying to say here?
What we are trying to say here is that as infant all humans seep in all the information they can get. That is the learning process is very fast and huge amount of learning is done. But, the same individuals when they come to a certain age loose the speed or flair to learn WHY? Has he lost the intelligence? Has he become weaker?
The answer to the questions is NO. But, the individual has lost or neglected one the most important factor that aids the learning process. That most important factor which drives a child to learn and imbibe all the information that is given to him has become dormant in the adult. The factor that I intend to stress upon is CURIOSITY.
The child in question had all the curiosity in him to try and explore all that is around him. But an adult has forgotten the word itself. Learning has come to mean something that is done by reading and remembering something that is written in a book.
CURIOSITY- let us see how curious we are?
How many of you have made a fool of some one on 1st of April? Do you know why the day is known as fool’s day?
How many of you know what a leap year is? Do you know why February has only 28 days? I mean why only February and not any other month?
These seem to be pretty obvious or silly questions to you. But when you are not curious enough to know about such simple things, where is the urge to learn. The spirit of learning has been imprisoned by the present educational system which is limiting the creativity and curiosity of the individuals.
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