ネイティブが教える英会話のジェムスクール☆Teachers☆

When I went to school, a long time ago to be sure, there was a lot of memorizing, learning by heart, starting with catechism, the rote repetition of the teachings of the Catholic church, without necessarily having any idea of what the words meant. That was bad enough then, since it doesn't mean you understand the first thing about what you just parrot back. Since then the sciences have gone through a revolution, particularly in biology, astronomy. Things changed so fast that this rote process was next to useless. If you didn't get the concept of what you learned you'd be at a total loss to understand the changes taking place. So the shift has been clear to learning problem solving skills, instead of just meaningless data. Learning skills means learning not only logic, and being reasonable, but more importantly learning how to recognize patterns, how within what seem to be chaotic appearances, certain shapes of similarity can be noticed, then checking back with further input, and drawing conclusions about how things work. This goes not only for science, but all fields of knowledge, even skills needed for the arts and language. Unfortunately, too many people still assume all knowledge is like a static puzzle, the pieces fitting together in a set motionless way. The truth is patterns can, and usually appear in motion, noticing patterns of movement is how we have to learn. It takes time, but over time, these skills can grow stronger, and can be passed on to others. They have to be learned. If they aren't catastrophe is almost unavoidable. This also goes for language studies. Take note.