Saturday, December 29, 2007

The importance of curiosity in education

I believe that curiosity is vitally important in education. Its influence and contribution are significant.

First, curiosity can be a driving force to motivate us. For example, I can relate to my private experience. I’ve never lived abroad. I took conventional English education in junior high school and high school in Japan. I’m not in abundant English environment at workplace. But I’d like to know how high level such a person reaches at. It’s no exaggeration to say that this curiosity drives me to improve my English.

Second, curiosity can maintain patience. I believe that more or less we demand patience to master something or learn something. Curiosity plays an important role to maintain continuance. For example, I majored in Physics in my university days. It was so pain in the neck to learn esoteric equations such as Einstein equation, Maxwell equation, Schrodinger equation whatever. Those are all basic equations to describe physical phenomenon. It’s tough to understand them. But my curiosity to know the meanings of those equations kept my patience.

In conclusion, curiosity is inevitable in education.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

An beneficial aspect of computer learning

It seems that almost everybody loves positive evaluations for him/herself. If you are a teacher ,the more you praise your student, the more he/she get motivated.
This relatively newly developing computer learning is a great teaching tool. Even in chemistry, one of the least popular subject, it really works. You can solve the problem over and over, and ofcourse due to the nature of learning, with more exercise, you improve your score. So this computer learning is really great way of learning. It is reported among educators that even a least prospective student, in most cases, get addicted to this system, then his/her score improves!
But it is also true that running this system is rather complicated, so sometimes errors on the computer can happen, especially errors by its programmers. Once I could not have solved an easy algebra problem for two hours, and later it turned out to be a teacher's mistake on setting up an answer.
Another drawback is that computer learning can give you evaluation only when the problem is given numerical data. So you cannot expect computer learning in the field of English conversation or compositon, still less EIKEN 2nd examination.
But anyway computer learning gives great chances for each student.

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