What is an Able Learner?
Can you imagine being able to read a page or a chapter or a textbook, with full understanding, and then being able to easily put into practice what you have just read?
This ability would make you a good student and a very able learner. You could learn anything you wanted to, and you would be able to think for yourself, because factually:
a) A student is one who studies. He is an attentive and systematic observer. A student is one who reads in detail in order to learn and then apply.
b) As a student studies, he knows that his purpose is to understand the materials he is studying by reading, observing and demonstrating so as to apply them to a specific result.
c) He connects what he is studying to what he will be doing.
d) A student knows what he is going to do with what he is studying.
If you could carry out the above points smoothly, you would be a very able learner. Desperately committing data to memory in order to pass an exam, even when you don’t really understand it, is not going to really help you become very successful in yourself and in life.
Working towards becoming an able learner is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It will set you up for life. You will be able to study anything you want to study, and retain and develop the ability to think for yourself. You can take back control of your own education. This journey begins with taking great care to understand all the words you are reading - not guess at them!
STRIVE TO BECOME AN ABLE LEARNER AND TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR OWN SUCCESSFUL EDUCATION!
The following pages explain how the key to becoming an able learner lies in becoming truly literate, and developing with practice the ability to recognise and handle words and symbols that you do not understand - without guessing! Guessing the meanings of words and symbols will not make you into an able learner! On the contrary, it will do the opposite. Becoming an able learner is not actually difficult, but it just needs a lot of practice.
Why Grammar?
The Misunderstood Word Defined
The Small Common Words
Reading Fiction and Non-Fiction
What are the 3 R’s?
The Three Barriers to Study
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