TEACH ME TO LEARN

Almost everyone acknowledges you learn best when you teach another and your learning is internalized when you live it. The best way to get people to learn is to turn them into teachers. In other words, you learn the material best when you teach it.

Ph.D. graduate

Also, when you teach or share what you are learning with others, you implicitly commit socially to live what you teach. You will be more motivated to live what you are learning. You will find that sharing creates bonding with people, especially with your children.

You can have them teach you what they are learning in school.

I have found that doing this simple thing essentially eliminates any need for external motivation with their studies.

Those who teach what they are learning are, by far, the best students.

The 8th Habit, by Stephen R. Covey, ( see pg.32)


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