Saturday 5 May 2018

Old Learning Styles vs New Learning Styles

Most of our life, we need to learn. We start learning from the day we were born and will continue to learn until the day we die. The most important lesson we can learn from this is the ability of our marvellous mind to absorb is endless. 

The belief we need to build in our self conscious mind is that, our mind can either help or make us struggle with anything we need to learn later in life. The learning styles we come across when we were children are different because of our teachers and parents. As we grow and learn in high school or college, we adapt and create our own style of learning. 


Lately, I came across a book called super learning by Sheila Ostrander. This book investigates the new styles of learning that uses music and slow reading by the teacher to the students to create more accomplished students. 

As a business student in the 1990's, I was always struggling to balance my work life with my own studies. Going to classes on weekends and working full time in a bank have challenges. I faced an uncertainty that what we learn, can it really be absorbed in our mind?

Stress

As I read the book, I learn to understand that our mind needs peace and calm more that it needs stress to actually learn anything?

Music and Learning

Have you noticed why a lot of parents send their child to music lessons. Studies have shown that music helps the child use their mental faculty better. In the same way we can use music to enhance our super-learning mind. The techniques discovered by this Bulgarian scientist has help many countries be successful in sports and other academic achievements.

Healing Power of Belief

This is a real power in our mind, if only we learn to exercise it to help our bodies heal more rapidly. There are examples of people who uses the same super-learning technique to avoid sunstroke and survive in the desert more comfortably. Wouldn't it be great if Vision College nurses could have the skills to heal people of pain with this incredible new learning skill?

Learn Languages in Minutes

The mind has such a limitless capability that with the right teaching, a teacher can teach a foreign language in minutes to his or her class. Imagine the possibilities that Vision College students could learn English faster and understand better; be able to articulate and be more active learners in the process.

Super Learners

It is my hope that more students in Vision can grow and learn to be super learners and excel in academic and other aspects. 


Put your worries and problems to one side, forget about all the bad stuff, and immerse yourself in a good book like the one I mentioned. It definitely will benefit you in so many ways.




Prepared by,

Kelvin Khoo

Marketing Assistant Manager
Vision College