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Whinstone Churchill states that “the first work of a university is to teach them character and not technical, wisdom and not trade”. Graduating from school does not mean to graduate from school of learning of else; you will live a life of mediocrity (having an inequality life). A yearning for learning qualifies you for earning. Whenever you stop learning, you start loosing. Isaiah 1:17 “learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the window”; Learning to do right/good/well
Proverb1:5 “a wise man will hear, and will increase learning: a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsel”, learning are not to be stagnant but increase in learning.
Proverb9:9 “give instruction to the wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning”, learning is not for grade but for learning, Mattew11:28, 29 “Come unto me: all yea that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me: for I am meek and lowly in heart: and yea shall find rest unto your soul”.
Joyce Meyer “When a leader stop learning, it becomes a leaper”. What food is to our body is what learning is to our soul. If you are tired of learning, you are tired of reigning.
University teaches less than 5% while the remaining 95%is for self developing.
LEARNING CULTURE/LIFESTYLE
Make reading your lifestyle or make it to be part of you wherever you are, so that your learning will be increasing. A life without learning is a life of depreciating.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT LEARNING
1. Learning is a necessity for growth: In order to grow, you must submit to the mode of learning so that you can increase in wisdom, knowledge.
2. Learning is empowering: It is a personal empowerment. Equipping yourself is from learning. It releases power and everything you need in battling with the future so that you will not look like a stranger whenever your find yourself in the market that is not of your own.
3. Learning is renewing: It refresh you, it make you not to be an obsolete in a particular aspect, It quickly gives you idea about some thing by renewing your brain and if there is a bad thought about something, learning quickly erase them off if the thing is changed. Learning also releases information that someone need to know about something.
4. Learning creates or gives energy: If you are a learner, it releases energy into your body so that you will be able to stand anywhere if there is any argument on some of the thing you’ve learned.
5. Learning determines your contribution to a system: Your contribution to any system is a function of what you have learned. A learner will be able to contribute to the development of a society and determined the end product of what he/she has contributed.
6. Learning determines your leading edge: It brings you out among the crowed. A learner is a distinct person; it will possess more wisdom which gives them more upper hands in everything they do in the society or system.
7. Learning is a feeding of the mind: When a mind is not properly feed, the thinking will be shrinking/reducing. Think before getting there. Your thinking speed increases when you are a learner, it also makes it sharper and faster.
8. Intelligence is quickness/willingness to learn: It distinguish people everywhere, it make people to interpret quickly what he/she heard.
THE LEARNING PROCESS
Being ignorance is not as shameful as not being able to learn. You are setting a pace for shame for being not learning i.e. working on the path of shame if you refuse to learn.
STAGE 1:
INFORMATION STAGE: It means level of identification,, you identify the material around the place or the material to be read or look.
STAGE 2:
KNOWLEDGE STAGE: Is a stage where information is related to i.e. what do we use it for, thinking and meditating on the information obtained so as to bring a tangible thing out of it.
STAGE 3:
SKILLS STAGE: The ability to apply the knowledge. The process to bring together all the knowledge for the use of man kind or society.
Many people stop at this third stage.
STAGE 4:
INSIGHT STAGE: Knowing the WHY behind the thing. It is from this level our relevance begins. The stage is the stages of stirring up about what has been seen because searching it provoke the spirit in us in order to know the reason why a particular material or information came from.
STAGE 5:
FORESIGHT STAGE: It gives the ability to project and see into the future. Very few percentages of people get here. After seeing what is inside it, thinking about it will be of good to the society in the future.
STAGE 6:
WISDOM STAGE: It is the peak/ultimate of all learning. It is the stage where all what you have worked for now work for you through not only the used for self but also for the society. It is the stage of rest. Serving or providing means of happiness to the society, thereby giving you gratitude for it.
HOW DO WE LEARN
There are three (3) major ways to be a learner;
1. Learn through what is written: Romans15:4 “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope”. This is in two forms
A. Learn through Bible i.e. Book of books. The book that has exist before the other book.
B. Materials written by contemporary men like journals/abstracts. Books written to the society through seminar, postal, Christian novels etc
2. Learn through observation: Don’t allow things to pass without seeing it and observe it. Those that observe shows in their life thinking. Your ability to observe is a great foresight which increases your learning; it is not only how to do it but also how not to do it. The good things and the bad things will help you in the future whenever you wish to do the same thing which you have seen and when the things want to go wring, you will quickly notice and change from it.
3. Learn through nature: Nature knows when everything will happen. Nobody is permitted to limit your life to a stage/point. Wherever the nature moves, moves along it and not with it because if you move with it, it may lead you to a wrong place but if you live by it, you will quickly notice and direct it away from destruction.
WHAT ATTITUDE MUST BE ABIDE TO INDURGE A LEARNING PROCESS
A. Humanity: a modest or how opinion of one’s own importance/modesty Mattew11:28 “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest”, It is the major humble to learn
B. Desire: through desire, a man separates himself. You must have a heart of learning everyday. A proud man will amount to nothing. Before you can be a learner person, your soul must thirst for learning i.e. have desire to learn.
C. Enthusiasm to learn: you must be willing and happy to learn, you must enjoy learning so that you will be a relevant personality to the society.
Jim Rons “The cost of the book is not as much as the cost of not reading the book”