Natural Learning
Over the last 100 years all teaching and education has been done in a classroom or school
environment, society has moved on from natural learning environments and become reliant on schools, colleges and
universities as a way of educating children. Schools and such like environments rely on examinations as a way
of testing children and young adults, to understand how much knowledge they have on a particular
subject.
Away from this strict classroom environment is natural learning which
basically means to analyze information, assuming responsibility and seeking answers. There is never an
actual answer to a question as there are always more possibilities and better ways of doing
things. Natural learning works on the theory that for every successful answer
there are literally thousands of incomplete results or failures. Natural learning environments come from
self motivated projects - these projects always bring out the very best in people and enable children to learn
with ease.
A natural learning environment can be anywhere, it could be out in the garden or in a
child’s bedroom, out in town or just simply out walking. There are always environments in which a person can
learn. Before classroom and compulsory education learning and gaining knowledge was just through groups of
family members whom passed on their skills, using the error of their ways in order to gain knowledge of a
particular situation. Once a family member had mastered a way of doing something, then this knowledge would
be passed on to offspring.
Natural learning for some pupils and students is far better than the method of having to
take tests in order to gain qualifications. Some people are just no good at examinations or understanding
certain equations but this does not mean that they are no good at the practical side of things. For instance
you could have a joiner who has never taken an examination but has brilliant skills and is able to work alongside
other joiners who have been to college and obtained the correct qualifications.
In some ways a natural way to learn is a better learn, because you are only learning what
you want to, you are not being forced into learning something that you find uninteresting. Natural learning
means that you can enjoy learning to read in your own time and not having to do it by the repetitive way in which
it is taught in schools. For children who dislike schooling and spend most of
their time trying to bunk off then natural learning is possibly a better method for these children to learn, with
no strict regime. It means they can learn and be taught as and when they want to in an environment in which
they like being.
There are many websites on the internet that explain all about natural learning and its
advantages and disadvantages. How natural learning compares with state education which is offered as a matter
of course, is down to the individual some people thrive in a natural learning environment and other prefer the
school, college and university root to being educated.
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