Learning is not that complicated at all. This is what I believe and some of you might agree or disagree with it. But I disagree completely with the idea of a few eminent experts saying that learning is a complex and complicated process. Yes, I agree that different students or individual learns differently using different medium. But it is not something unique in the case of learning only. Every individual is different in their choices in life in general as well.
Why Am I saying Learning is not Complicated and Simple?
- It can happen anytime anywhere. Learning is a natural phenomenon and not a mechanical or artificial process.
- Learning doesn't necessarily need external or internal motivation. It is like breathing which can be controlled by an individual but up to certain limits. Mostly, It is something that happens back in your mind and subconsciously.
- Mostly, we prefer a 'medium of learning' where we can learn about complicated things in a simple and comprehensible way. That is why we have created a set of rules to inculcate learning in school students, College graduates and for doctors and engineers and other professionals. These courses are made in Western countries primarily for this reason only. To make learning more accessible and simple, lucid and less time-consuming and more organic for the learner.
- The Indian way of teaching and learning was based on listening and a conversational approach. Most of them were shruti. It was that way because of the same reason to make things simple and understandable for everyone. Hence most of the complicated concepts of philosophy were explained through metaphors and examples from real events.
- Also, Most students learn the rules of sports easily and the rules of grammar and mathematics with greater difficulty. I have seen students making their own toys with their own minds. They do not know why the wheels move with the force they apply on them how far and why. But they know that this happens. They know that water when boiling is hot and would harm when they would touch it. So, they know a lot of things just don't know why what they know. Hence, In the early days of their learning, they ask lots of Why questions?
Why have we made our learning process"medium-focused rule-based" rather than keeping it simple as it was in the past?
- We wanted to produce professionals who can work in our factory, offices in a mechanised professional way. Hence, we not only invented professional courses such as medicine, engineering, pharmacy, and management but we have also mechanised the other aboriginal subjects such as Mathematics, Science, Philosophy, History, Literature and Art.
- I am neither saying it was unimportant. This process has made education, and knowledge accessible to a lot more people than what we were capable of with the previous approach and methods.
Way Ahead and course correction
- It has definitely, enrolled a lot of people in education but missed the true essence of learning. Learning in the past was not limited to livelihood or to working in farmland or a factory. It was to understand life and find meaning in it. To gain eternal happiness and peace from your life works and get care and nutrition from society and ecosystem and give back.
- Learning was to get satisfaction in life. As we eat delicious food to satisfy our taste bud's needs and calm our cravings. We needed learning to be an integral part of our life to satisfy our intellectual cravings. It was definitely a higher level of craving and could give us sustained and long-term happiness and peace in life. We have left that section behind.
- We need intellectual satisfaction. We need to satisfy our intellectual cravings or desire to live happily. We need to reintroduce these in our 'medium-focused or rule-based' approach in its original way. That is learning is simple and it is everywhere and it is our natural desire to extract learning out of everywhere. Once we do it and implement and share it. We would be better as human beings and happier as individuals.
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