The Process of Learning

It's supposed to be fun. Do you remember the time when you were little, and you get so amused to know something that you haven't before?

Learning isn't supposed to be a MUST GET GOOD GRADES OR YOU'RE DOOMED.

People aren't supposed to react negatively when they got extra classes.

People aren't supposed to feel delightful when they heard that a class is canceled.

People aren't supposed to whine when they have to sacrifice their time for some discussion.

LEARNING IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE TORTURING.

Do you know why the ancients were so brilliant and creative back then? Creating a lot of new stuff and discovering a lot of things. Because they LOVE learning. Like the feelings we use to have when we were children. That genuine curiosity to know more of the world.

Now most of the things have been laid out for us. The people in the past had done that. They already arranged the periodic table, discover the laws of physics, studied how the human body functions. All we need to do is flip the pages of the ALREADY made book and memorize.

Intrinsic learning is what it's called. To learn based on the intention to know. The motivation is one's curiosity.

People nowadays go to school to learn because?

"Everyone my age go to school."

"To meet friends."

"To get good jobs in the future."

Has anyone came to learn because they really intend to learn? Maybe a few.

Why do you enter the university?

"To become a doctor."

"Because everyone my age does that."

"Better to waste my time here than at home."

Has anyone came because they intend to learn? Maybe a few.

Why does students nowadays do not appreciate the enthusiasm and spirit of learning?

Because studying in school is too EXAM-ORIENTED and their mind does not tell them to gain as much knowledge as possible but to get as much A's as possible! This way they do not have that joy of learning and soon forget the things they have worked hard to memorize.

Why am I here in UM?

I don't really know how to answer that question. I WANT to be that few but my behavior towards studying shows that I'm not.

I don't wan't my life to be exam-oriented and that my highest priority in life is to get good grades. Life is too much to be just that. I don't want to be too busy to have time for my family. I don't want my life's number one priority to be work or ambition.

And this totally shows that I'm not that highly ambitious. =.="

I'd like to spend more of time with my family rather than my collies. To educate my children rather than trying to find new ways of solving scientific problems. I don't like to be the mother that's not always home, staying at work late, going a lot of places leaving my family behind. That is not who I dream to be.

Since I was little, my idol has always been my mother who is so devoted to her family. I have always wanted to be like her. Loving, understanding, patient and most of all, always being there for her children no matter what. And how am I supposed to achieve all that if I am never home? Stuck in a lab somewhere figuring out the next best way to use energy without harming the Earth more than it is.

So tell me. What kind of job should I have?

Domestic engineering??

I love learning and definitely want to work with a good paying salary so that I can pay for my house also to help support my family and parents whom will not be working anymore.

I'd like to be a teacher but I don't really like the idea of being attached to the school and the reigns of the headmaster.

So. Why am I in UM?

I'll need time to think about that.