So we all speak words, since the first day we are born we
hear people speaking words and as we grow our ability to communicate and
understand the words we have heard grows. But do we actually know what we are
talking about? Well one look at the world would suggest we don’t know what we
are talking about, I mean the problem with our education is that throughout our
lives we scarcely truly understand the importance of vocabulary and what these
words mean in direct dictionary fact, there is no work being done on directing
our natural learning ability.
The words we know derive every action we make because our
ability to comprehend and be successful in anything in life is dependent on how
well developed our vocabulary is. At TechnoTutor we say that before we begin
studying a particular topic it is crucial that our brick wall is mastered in
this subject that our foundation is solid.
For example if I pick up a book on the mechanics of a car
engine, it would be of no use for me to sit down and start reading the book
until I have compiled word lists of the vocabulary needed to understand the
subject and then integrated these words into my physical body, stored for quick
and easy recall. Then I will have a solid brick wall and I will not hit any “road
bumps” within reading the book on car mechanics in any situation.
The education system that we have all been brought up in
suggests that the natural learning ability is not truly understood because we
are not being shown how to effectively direct our education. In a society where
it is believed that our thoughts, feelings, emotions, life memories and opinions
have huge value in everything that we do. However it is a provable fact that
this focus on assuming what words mean according to how we feel and what our
opinion is of a word completely compromises our education and general ability
to understand anything in the world which will inevitably compromise any number
of situations we find ourselves in whether it be a social gathering, a job
interview, meeting new people, raising children and any other number of
situations.
Let me give you an example when I was 17 I decided to switch
my college course from drama to media studies because I thought I knew more
about media then drama. However as soon as I changed course I was being hit
with words that I didn’t know the meaning of immediately, I remember being
asked in the class what the word narrative meant. I really had no idea at the
time at all and I experienced a lot of embarrassment in the moment, I took a
guess and was wrong. Anyway after that I decided to push as much books on media
into my head as possible, stressing and straining with difficulty in a constant
state of concrete learning. Like many of my friends at college I didn’t start
trying to cram these books into my head until a few weeks before the exam, then
when I got to the exams at the end of the course I got a C, but you know what,
here in this moment I cannot remember hardly any of the subject matter I was
being tested on lol.
So what does that tell me? It tells me the problem was that
the vocabulary was not being effectively stored into my long term memory, I have
no abstract memory, I was not accelerating my natural learning ability and if I
were to repeat the exam now with the same flawed study methods of trying to “cram
the book in my head” then the same thing would happen again, but I would
probably get worse then a C grade because I accumulated a more contaminated
brick wall for the years after this exam.
I became less and less interested in education after college
was over, as my understanding of its importance continued to diminish further
throughout my teenage years and I could remember nothing! Why go to college for
2 years if I come out at the end not remembering what I have “learnt”?
However through changing my starting point with education
and utilizing the tools that we offer at TechnoTutor like the vocabulary builder I know now that there
is a way to enjoy education where the learning happens quicker and stores into
long term memory, and then it becomes easy and very fun to learn new things. So
If I was tested on the same media material now, I am 100% certain with complete
clarity that I would get a much better grade then a C, because thinking,
feeling and emotions where I assume things and create holes in my brick wall does
not come into my learning now, only what I measurably know is proven to me
every time I use TechnoTutor to learn something.
I start slow and I drive up the levels until I have reached
my maximum capacity, it’s like accelerating through the gears in a car and
every driver knows that going into top gear on the motorway is an enjoyable experience,
knowing that we are moving at our highest possible potential, which in turn
allows us to successfully get to our destination as soon as possible. If I was
stuck in first gear on the motorway it would not be effective, it would take me
a long, long, long time to get to my destination and of course this would make
me tired and disinterested because its taking so long and I would be getting in
everyone’s way, literally a danger to myself and others in the world, being an
ineffective member of society due to not educating myself in the best way
possible.
The sooner we realize that the problems in the world are a
consequence of our education being misaligned, and the sooner we take action to
change our education using the time tested tools that are far more effective than
the current education system, then the sooner this world will change for the
better.
There is so much to discuss here so I will continue in
future posts.
