What to Learn (Past) and How to Learn (Future)

   “If you teach a person WHAT TO LEARN, you are preparing that person for the PAST. If you teach a person HOW TO LEARN, you are preparing that person for the FUTURE.”

~ Cyril Houle ~

   This quotation implies that education is not just a one time process of learning but a continuous journey towards self-improvement.

   When you teach a person “what to do” you are actually spoon-feeding everything to him. You just let him have it all with no sweat – zero effort. And with this kind of learning where everything’s right in front of the table, it’s really expected that it all fades away and be eventually forgotten. However, when you teach him “how to do it”, then you give him the opportunity to learn by himself. It’s like you’re opening a door towards self-discovery. You are actually giving him the chance to stand on his own and be responsible for his life. With this kind of strong foundation, everything he learns would definitely last long.

   By means of teaching the students “how to learn”, it could pave the way the student’s future on how they are to discover things that might help in their life as they move forward.

There’s a Fruitful Product in Every Teacher’s Determination to Teach

  They say that “once a teacher, forever a student.” Well, it’s definitely true that once you will become a teacher, you’ll never get rid of the things that a student would actually do. To become a teacher is not that easy. You’ve got to go through a certain process that would actually hone your personality and ability.

  You might be wondering that being a teacher may be a burden, studying the lessons to be taught, making of lesson plans, constructing and making of test questionnaires, administering and checking of test papers and so on. All these things will be loaded upon the teachers’ shoulders. But the opposite of all the hard work of a teacher will be the happiness once they see their students who are already successful in their lives, and you know that you are one of the reasons that they reach to the peak of success. So with this, you’ll really be proud to yourselves that you’ve done something great in return. So there is really a fruitful product in every teacher’s determination to teach.

  On our first journey, “everything may be filled with darkness but in the end smooth sailing comes on our way”.

Education is the key

  We may come to realize to ourselves that we were lucky enough that our parents were able to send us to school, could even fed us and and could even give us our needs in our everyday life. On the contrary, life became so unfair for these innocent children who were living in great poverty in which they had nothing to do with these. These children were just a mere victim that happened to be the sons or daughters of their parents who were said to be the root of all these things.

  In the first place, these children would have not experienced hunger, they could probably have a comfortable place to live with and could even go to school if their parents were able to think and plan beforehand. And so therefore, it’s their parents who were responsible enough to provide their needs. They were able to blame for everything of why their family was facing this kind of problems. If the two persons involved in this, have planned to finish their studies and land a stable job first before trying to engage in building or having a family of their own, then they could have not experienced to live along the poverty line.

  The only thing that we could have and keep to ourselves was to be educated in such a way that we could land in a beautiful job, and once we are that ready and responsible enough to have our own family then we could surely give the best for our children someday. Besides, what’s in a hurry? It’s just that, we are really after of the practicality in which people nowadays don’t even bother to think about it. All they were thinking is their love for each other, not knowing that this could not provide satisfactory especially to the needs of their children. So in order for us to have a brighter future together with our own family someday, then we should take every single action into considerations. Somehow that could lead us into the life that we want to be in the future.

by: April Ann O. Ferraren