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700 Common Words Exercise No. 5 Longhand & Shorthand
It seems to me that there are three principal ways in which we can learn to do things or to understand things looking reading, or hearing. We can watch things done by other people, and copy their movements and actions. This is the way in we learn when we are very young. Babies, and all young animals, of course, are very quick to copy the acts of their mothers, and in this way they learn a very great amount in a remarkable short time. We continue throughout our lives to learn in this ways and then making some attempt to carry out like acts ourselves. When we grow up, however, we are able to make observations within much wider limits, and we are free to learn great numbers of things simply by watching. Not only can we see the life going on round about us, but we have also brought right into the home the moving picture and the TV set. There is, perhaps, no more interesting and successful method of learning about other countries than to watch moving pictures that have been taken in those places. Most of us find it much easier to remember what we have seen than to remember what we have read in a book or have been told. Even a very good writer, telling us of scenes and doings in far off lands, cannot bring to our minds so clear a picture of those countries as can a quite short moving picture in the course of instructions in subjects as different from one another as history and science. In such subjects mere reading is not enough to give a complete picture of the material under consideration. We can, then, use of eyes when we want to learn, using our powers of seeing and observation. We must also, however, use of powers of hearing. To most of us this is a difficult way of learning, and we have often to work quite hard to master the art of learning through hearing. An exception is, of course, the subject of languages, for clearly there is no better way to learn a language than to hear other people speaking it. Mere book knowledge of a language is a poor thing, for a language does not really live until it is used. When, however, we are dealing with ideas learning through hearing becomes more difficult. We have to learn first to pay attention. How often does a teacher say: Pay attention, please!” And how necessary are the words. If no notes are being taken the words once said have gone forever. If they live at all it must be in the memories of those who have heard the words. When we first go to school we think we are learning to write and to read and to do little sums, but in fact we are also learning something of even more importance: we are learning to pay attention, to hear what the teacher says, and to hold it is our memories. The person who is able to pay attention is a much better learner than the person whose mind is always going off into other fields of thought, even though the two people may have equally good minds in other respects. Many people who attend public meetings find that their attention is not always given to the person speaking, and it is indeed a good man or woman who can hold our complete attention for half an hour or more. It is probably true that most people learn most things most easily through reading. They can read the material they wish to learn, and can read it again many, many times if they do desire. They can memorize the written word with a reasonable degree of ease, and can usually master a far larger amount of material in this way in a given time than would be possible by another method. Seeing, reading, and hearing all pay their part in our complete development as we grow into men and women.
