I’ve recently been extremely interested in improving my method of learning new things. I’m someone who has been lucky enough to have the ability to understand and learn things quickly, the problem is that I often end up forgetting these things long-term due to a lack of any need to practice the material. This is something I feel was never discussed in high-school and often people’s learning style and how they best understand a subject is never really considered. We’re all pushed into the same robotic assembly line with public school, taught to memorize but not really understand. We’re given loads of material but have so little time to explore what we actually have an interest in. Children who are unable to learn by sitting still and listening to lectures hours and hours a day are berated and given drugs because it’s considered a disorder. The cookie cutter method has never worked, and the adults of today show that the education of their childhood has failed them. Everything is one click away, they see a news post, or a tweet, an online posting, or hear something from someone and treat that as fact. We don’t have the intentions to look these things up, fact check, and better understand the things we are talking about. We also aren’t taught to think, we’re taught to listen so we can go work in offices and be told what to do instead of trying to improve or make changes. People are capable of such amazing things but they’re stunted from the beginning by being given a single path to follow and then out of nowhere saying they can choose whatever they wish. Learning is the first step of teaching people how to be better, allowing for better things to happen, if that never improves then how can we expect anything else to.
