Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Interest--the heart of learning

Today, I was asked whether I enjoy studying. I think despite the fact that it's boring to study, we have to study every day. Only then can we get good grades and have a better future. However, We just force ourselves to study but haven't realized the pleasure of study and don't enjoy it from the heart. Just as taking medicine, there is no doubt that all of us don't like taking medicine, but when we are sick we have to take it whether we like it or not. But my partner Ruizhi told me that his did enjoy studying. He loves whatever he does from the heart and from the beginning. What he said shocked me and let me think about the interest of learning as well as everything.

As an old motto told us, interest is the best teacher. How can we achieve something without interest? Yes, things do have their boring parts, but we can ignore the bad parts and concentrate more on the positive parts. The same example, we hate medicine, but we can concentrate more on its instructions and how it functions. Then, we may not regard it as a suffering to take medicine because we can have interest in investigating it.

Now that we have to do something, why not leave out the bad feelings and begin to enjoy it?

8 comments:

  1. Hi,Qingshuo~Your example of medicine in the first paragraph is very vivid,and I can not agree with you more that the attitude towards learning a language is exactly the most important.Since you know this vital thing,I believe you can smoothly deal with your studying in bridging course.Best wishes~

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  2. Interesting is really a useful tool to make everything go well. If you like it, you will spare no effort to learn it. But the promble is we cannot be attracted in everything, so we must develop our interests of the things we don’t enjoy. It's quite difficult. If you know the way, please tell me.

    By th way, somebody said the life is the best teacher, If you have to die when you fail, you will have a big chance to succeed. Maybe we are in this situation............

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    1. we can ignore the bad parts and concentrate more on the positive parts.try to find the positive parts is most important and difficult.
      yes, we can also learn a lot from our life. but life and interest are in different aspects. life is about learning the society and interest is about learning knowledge.

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  3. Interest is our lifelong teacher ,and it can guide us to some wonderful things .As Qingshuo said ,interest can help us leave out the boring parts .Maybe it works because it can give us the vital motivation in our hearts.

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  4. Indeed, interest is a great motivator. Besides interest, I believe that perverence and determination matters too. These are qualities that you have also captured in your comments. I agree with you that interest can be developed, by starting with the right mindset.

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  5. I like your idea. Since we have no choice but to learn it, why not enjoy the process? I always find it hard to concentrate on vocabulary learning, but easier to read one English novel. I think we can combine these things together.

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  6. The example about medicine you give is really interesting. There are many thing we have to do but in fact, we don't want to do. For some of us, study is one of them. Yes, to say foster interesting is easy, but to do it is hard. Maybe we can ask Ruizhi for help, and just try our best.

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  7. "just as taking medicine," It is a splendid figure of speech. Interest is the best teacher. We should enjoy what we are doing.

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