For the few past decades, the importance of learning has highlighted to become a mature person, and it has drawn a question whether the student should understand ideas and concepts or just learn facts through the process of learning. While some people argue that learning facts is ultimate goal of studying , I am fully convinced that it is more important for student to understand the ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts, because of its utilization and effectiveness.
Above all, perceiving the ideas and concepts through the creative studying system allows people to utilize what they learned to many different aspects. This is because people are able to apply the ideas to the other situation once they understood. As a result, they can develop problem solving skills since they can cope with confronting problems wisely based on the knowledge that they have learned. The best illustration of this is science project. Last month, I did science project about electricity which is the hardest part that majority of student feel uncomfortable. However, I and my team members easily understood the main concept of electricity while we verified the movement of electron through our eyes rather than studying with thick wordy books. Consequently, our team got the best results on the test, because we could apply what we learned to many different type of questions. In this respect, it should come as no surprise that people can practically use the ideas that they learned , and draw satisfied results.
On top of that, by understanding the ideas and concepts of subjects, people are feasible to remember longer. In other words, people feel comfortable of learning new things since they understand facts and memorize them simultaneously, which means that it is not big deal and obscure things for them. As a result, information will last for a long time in their brain, so they can study for their further future, rather than study for the test and forget right after the test. The best illustration of this is memorizing vocabulary. Only one years ago, I did not know so many words in the reading passage , because I forgot most of the vocabulary that I previously memorized. At that period, it was really vague for me to memorize vocabulary, because I had to memorize its spelling, definition and pronunciation separately. However, recently, I could memorize vocabulary effectively and efficiently while I understand derivation of words and some rules. In this regard, it is hard to deny that understanding concepts encourages people to raise their effectiveness of their work.
As a concluding mark, it is obvious that it is more vital for student to understand ideas and concept than it is for them to learn facts. The reason is that the utilization and effectiveness lead people to accomplish their work better in a long learn. On the whole, I believe that spending valuable time to learn facts is more a sacrifice than an opportunity. |