Strategy and Approach for Learning through a System of Self-study and Self-motivation

Abstract

Education is more a process of learning than teaching. Vedic concept of ‘learning without understanding is cramming and is more like dry wood on ashes that can never blaze forth’ (Nirukta 1.18). Current practices in education lecture-based imparting of knowledge, use of textbooks to back up the lectures, coaxing student to work with home assignments, and employing examinations to evaluate the student learning – were established quite a while ago and do not reflect the modern times. With the increasing availability of knowledge freely accessible from electronic sources, many of them with critical analysis, the lectures are becoming less attractive for students to acquire knowledge. Furthermore, textbook-based lectures become fixed in time and context, which make them less engaging for modern students. This is particularly true for higher education but holds true even at the level of high school.