Ideas come from Qiu mama’s blog post – Click here [is in Chinese]
Qiu mama shared a experience of her with a Man [Father of a daughter], this father do not push her children for last minute study before their exam. He thinks if they are concentrating on their teacher teaching, they should not have any problem in exam. Last minute study is kind of rush job which might not bring any good effect to the children, moreover it might mess up their study. He does not put high expectation on his children, he just wish they can learn whatever is important to them and apply it.
For me, I do not encourage all those last minute rush revision which we always see our friends were doing it. I prefer to jot down whatever teacher/lecturer saying in the class, and understand all those explanation which we can’t find in the textbook. I always believe that whatever come out in the exam, seldom can find in the textbook, most of time, all the general knowledge will appeared which mentioned by teacher/lecturer in the class. I used to tell my sister to complete all her homework, and concentrate during the class, because if we do so, I bet we at least can pass our exam. With a little bit more of the effort, we will score good result in the exam. I do practice like this and I do get good result in all the exams.
Many people just can’t understand the theory of “Study hard” do not grant you a good result, “Study Smart” do. You can memorize the whole textbook and write it back in a paper without any mistake, but you will know apply it flexible, because all appeared in your mind are fully same as textbook, thing/question/situation which do not match with textbook will collapse you. Like old time Martial Art Master (Kungfu Master), they always ask their student to learn/practice hard for the entire pattern and at the end they ask them to forget all of them. Why? Because you will not forget what you’d learned, but you just need to forget the entire sequence, only when you forget the sequence then you can become unpredictable and skillful. In our world, when we study, we should practice the same method, learned it and forget about it.
Yes, it is difficult to do so… even for myself, I can’t confirm I could do the same.
“When a person who learned more from books, he afraid to fail, cause when he is failed, it means he lost everything he practice.” – by DSvT (1980 ~ )
