The potential of self-learning

The potential of self-learning

Have you ever wanted to learn something which you found interesting or you are curious about, but you seem to find yourself not having enough time to learn that something, because of busy schedules, long working days, accelerated societies and even a mountain of projects that you need to complete?

This thought pop's up daily in my life and I will stop for a moment and would think about it for a while. Trying to figure how society would actually be if we had to learn on our own meaning that if we had no schools or education institutions to provide learning practices. I must say that it would have been difficult in the past, because of the difficulty of trying to get uphold of information or at least the process of getting information took a bit longer compared to the 21st century where gaining access to information are quite simple and easy. Just Google it :-).

The idea which I am trying to create in this blog is that what if we could have the opportunity to learn something we actually want to learn and learn that through self-learning? I believe here lies great potential.

First of we need to consider that to gain information today in the modern world is way more easier than the past. Due to the technological advance society we live in. So for us to gain information we can just simply click on a button and then we would receive information in an instance.

This gives us the opportunity to learn something, because we can get quick access to information, but the problem we have today is that we learn things at educational institutions or at schools which does not interest most of us or even stimulate creativity in our minds. After watching the documentary about the "The Independent project" there was a quote which one kid said that in the education institutions they learn student about the world yet they keep them isolated from the world.

To me that quote is true. How can we actually be expected to be learned, but we are continuously being forced by other things such as to sit in a classroom in which a lesson is presented which is a lesson that has no value for us in terms of our interests and the life we want to live. "The Independent Project" to me is a good example of how we as students can actually educate ourselves, because we know ourselves better and we understand ourselves even if some institutions say that we only discover ourselves once we reach a higher grade in school or once we are working.

I believe that self-learning has great potential, because you can then actually learn something you want to learn and once you learn stuff you want to know you start to create a responsibility. You then want to know more of what you are interested, so you try to find more ways or sources to gain information. This process I believe helps us to discover ourselves and provide us the direction in the type of job we want to work in one day.