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Self-Education:
Active Learning
Posted: Sep 2009
Why
is self-education so important? What is the relationship of wealth and success with the active
learning and self-education?
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If
you ask the average resident of the planet earth about
things that they prefer mostly what would be the answer?
The most usual answer would probably be the wealth and
success. But wealth and success do not come up just
like
that. I takes a lot of time, effort and, most
importantly, education and active learning in order to
build the wealth and success.
Self-education
is very important in the 21st century. Our grandparents
could imagine a world in which they finish the school
and to the rest of their life do the same thing at the
same or very similar way. But even our fathers felt the
need for continuous education. Today the idea of
completion of education by graduation sounds more and
more like a utopia. Modern society, a society of
knowledge, requires a continuous education, at least
until retirement. In fact you really have no choice -
you'll learn until your death, but for comfort - once
you enter into retirement, provided that it allows you
to existence, you will learn just what you want and as
much as you want.
You
can educate after the completion of formal education in
two ways. One is that your company you work for is
sending you to education, courses, workshops and other
events. But not many people can acquire sufficient
education on that way.
The other way of
continuous education are learning during after hours, during weekends,
leisure, or if possible a dedicated time during the
work. You can do it by reading the books, visit web
seminars or exchanging experiences with colleagues. This
is particularly important in professions in which the
scope and focus of work relatively often change. IT is
one of those professions.
IT
is an area that is rapidly changing and there is always
something new appearing, a new item or technology that
require the expert to devote his time to study them. The
field of IT is wide, covering the immense amount of
innovation and technology that is difficult to track.
However, if you want to remain competitive in the IT
world, you must follow them. Not all, because it is not
possible. Even with specialized things it is sometimes
difficult to keep up the pace.
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IT
is not the only professional field that requires
self-education. Neither the doctors are spared -
new discoveries in medicine, new procedures, new
diagnostics, new drugs ... and doctors today have
to learn throughout their careers. In fact, it's
easier to enumerate the profession in which
education more or less stops with graduation:
cleaners, workers, manual, chambermaids, ... Every
profession that has had a more complex process is
subject to change, some faster, some slower.
It
is therefore disturbing to see how self-education
sometimes is not appreciated. What is the
alternative for education? Is that a sport bet or
lotto? Wining a horse race bet may help to some,
but the odds are so low.
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Alternatively,
you can further educate and thus become more
capable, efficient and competitive. Your knowledge
will enable you to progress in relation to
colleagues. It will open the door to career
advancement toward higher position and higher
salary. It will bring you to needful things:
wealth and success.
Recommended
Reading:
Personal
Change Management
Learning To
Let Go
Learn To Listen
Conflicts
Management
Wisdom
Does Not Necessarily Come With Age
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