Discussion What is your method of study?

[Sovereign]

How do you gentleman study? As of late I've take to reading on logic and to better understand it I have been reading the chapter ending summery first and then reading the contents back wards. For example


1.1 Lorem ipsum
Cogito ergo sum, mementos sum es bonum.

2.2 Gualica bellum
Carthago delenda est

I start at 2.2 and go backwards to the beginning. So in other words, I start at the end and go to the beginning and I oddly find it enjoyable to say the least.

I'm also trying to use a few principles of classical pedagogy specifically these three concepts:

1. Festina Lente: Make Haste Slowly (master each step rather than rushing through content).

2. Multum Non Multa: Do Fewer Things, But Do Them Well (better to master a few vital ideas than cursorily cover many fragmented details that will be forgotten).

3. Repetito Mater Memoriae: Repetition Is The Mother of Memory and Makes Learning Permanent (lively, regular review and repetition makes learning permanent).


The truth of the matter is, I am working on a retarded level of thinking and I need to work at my own pace. How do you gentlemen study?

 

[Sovereign]

Ten Essential Principles of Classical Pedagogy

1. Scholé: Cultivating Restful Learning That Enables Deep Learning That Delights and Sustains Students (provide adequate time for reection, contemplation and discussion of profound and important ideas)

2. Festina Lente: Make Haste Slowly (master each step rather than rushing through content)

3. Multum Non Multa: Do Fewer Things, But Do Them Well (better to master a few vital ideas than cursorily cover many fragmented details that will be forgotten)

4. Repetito Mater Memoriae: Repetition Is The Mother of Memory and Makes Learning Permanent (lively, regular review and repetition makes learning permanent);

5. Embodied Learning: Rhythms and Routines That Profoundly Teach (the rhythms, practices, traditions and routines we create are just as important for learning as our front-of-the class instruction)

6. Wonder and Curiosity: Modeling Wonder to Cultivate Live-Long Affections for Truth, Goodness and Beauty (we should seek to impart a love for truth, goodness in beauty regularly by modeling our own wonder or love of that which is lovely)

7. Educational Virtues: Cultivating Habits of Learning Necessary for A Student to Be a Student (we should seek to cultivate virtues of love, humility, diligence, constancy and temperance in the lives of students)

8. Docendo, Discimus (By Teaching We Learn): Why Students Must Teach to Master Learning (older students should teach younger students to master material; you don’t know truly know something until you can teach it)

9. Optimus Magister Bonus Liber Est (The Best Teacher Is A Good Book): Why Students Must Study The Masters To Be Truly Educated (the “great teacher” within a book needs a “in the flesh teacher” to bring the author-teacher to life.)

10. Songs, Chants And Jingles: How Singing Delights Students and Makes Learning Permanent (lower school mainly; most important content/skill we wish to create should be taught or reinforced with a song, chant or jingle)

 

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[Two-jay]

How do you gentleman study? As of late I've take to reading on logic and to better understand it I have been reading the chapter ending summery first and then reading the contents back wards. For example


1.1 Lorem ipsum
Cogito ergo sum, mementos sum es bonum.

2.2 Gualica bellum
Carthago delenda est

I start at 2.2 and go backwards to the beginning. So in other words, I start at the end and go to the beginning and I oddly find it enjoyable to say the least.

I'm also trying to use a few principles of classical pedagogy specifically these three concepts:

1. Festina Lente: Make Haste Slowly (master each step rather than rushing through content).

2. Multum Non Multa: Do Fewer Things, But Do Them Well (better to master a few vital ideas than cursorily cover many fragmented details that will be forgotten).

3. Repetito Mater Memoriae: Repetition Is The Mother of Memory and Makes Learning Permanent (lively, regular review and repetition makes learning permanent).


The truth of the matter is, I am working on a retarded level of thinking and I need to work at my own pace. How do you gentlemen study?

I think what you are describing here is what is called the metacognitive part of studying. These are the techniques you use to make studying easier, and we could see them as part of a set of problem solving skills which are required to study since in my opinion, I think that studying is basically problem solving. I think that what you describe here should be enough, I mean, everything you need to become a more efficient thinker is already here.

The other thing is making sure you study in a silent enviroment or use earplugs, Pomodoro, meditation between study sessions, brain enhacing substances (?), reading books about metacognition and the mental processeses of geniuses.

 

[Sovereign]

I think what you are describing here is what is called the metacognitive part of studying. These are the techniques you use to make studying easier, and we could see them as part of a set of problem solving skills which are required to study since in my opinion, I think that studying is basically problem solving. I think that what you describe here should be enough, I mean, everything you need to become a more efficient thinker is already here.

The other thing is making sure you study in a silent enviroment or use earplugs, Pomodoro, meditation between study sessions, brain enhacing substances (?), reading books about metacognition and the mental processeses of geniuses.

If you could make a kind of list of techniques, that others might be able to use, what would you suggest?

Thank you

 

[Two-jay]

If you could make a kind of list of techniques, that others might be able to use, what would you suggest?

Thank you

Questioning everything until you understand it all. If you can't understand something then skip it and comeback to it later.

Question what you read. Question what you know. Make you sure you understand where everything comes from.

 

[wsada]

When I randomly get the interest in something I go study it for as long as possible before I meet a challenge that completely puts me off

 

[Myst]

How do you gentleman study? As of late I've take to reading on logic and to better understand it I have been reading the chapter ending summery first and then reading the contents back wards. For example


1.1 Lorem ipsum
Cogito ergo sum, mementos sum es bonum.

2.2 Gualica bellum
Carthago delenda est

I start at 2.2 and go backwards to the beginning. So in other words, I start at the end and go to the beginning and I oddly find it enjoyable to say the least.

I'm also trying to use a few principles of classical pedagogy specifically these three concepts:

1. Festina Lente: Make Haste Slowly (master each step rather than rushing through content).

2. Multum Non Multa: Do Fewer Things, But Do Them Well (better to master a few vital ideas than cursorily cover many fragmented details that will be forgotten).

3. Repetito Mater Memoriae: Repetition Is The Mother of Memory and Makes Learning Permanent (lively, regular review and repetition makes learning permanent).


The truth of the matter is, I am working on a retarded level of thinking and I need to work at my own pace. How do you gentlemen study?

mainly 1 and 2