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. 

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.