Showing posts with label self-education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-education. Show all posts

Monday, October 24, 2011

Teach Yourself Something Unique


Teaching yourself is one thing that I have always been a believer in. Because I believe you are your own best teacher and learning by yourself is very important. Why? Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Our teachers play a key role in our early education. But another truth I have found out and I would like to share with every eager mind out there is that things you teach yourself or better still discover on your own makes you stand out rather than blend with everybody; it makes you entitled to knowledge that you are the pioneer of. In teaching yourself you will have to resort to doing researches by reading books and articles written by other people, but it was your conscious effort to teach yourself what is in the learning materials that will make your knowledge unique. Discovery makes you different. And through learning and searching for knowledge on our own regarding a particular subject, we are able figure out things for ourselves that has been hidden.
The sum of all that I would like you to understand is you are your own best teacher.
When you learn something through your own research, it gives you an edge or leverage over others who are not entitled to what you have taught yourself through your own efforts. Others who never created the opportunity for themselves to learn what you already know, believe me you are one step ahead of them with the knowledge that is self-acquired.
Teaching yourself means educating yourself. For you to be reading this that means a teacher that could be a parent or a guardian gave you this knowledge of reading in school or at home-which is the foundation that you need and have already gotten. But you can also endeavor to learn on your own rather than waiting for a teacher, tutor, lecturers or teaching assistants or whatever form of instructor available at your level of education.
The truth is some teachers love their jobs and others don’t. So the level of patience that your teacher will display in making you understand something new is not what you will dedicate to yourself.
So as much as our teachers play an essential part in laying the foundation for our formal education, it is only yourself who can learn things that will take you to the heights that are known to only you.
The possibility that someone else also must have had the opportunity of learning what you have taught yourself is likely but at the end of the day you both end up learning entirely different things from the same book.
You must have read the same book from the same source but your level of understandings will be very much different. Successful people are people doing the same things right that others are doing wrong. And it is that uniqueness in knowledge that makes the difference.
The impact that self-tutorials can make on your life is limitless. Maximizing your knowledge base can turn your life around in unique ways. And it is not teaching yourself that is important but living by what you taught yourself or acting upon your knowledge is what will make you different and successful. And every aspect of life deserves some level of screening process. So you should learn how to take useful