3 Do&Don't suggestions for students by Zhang Wuchang

Recently, I accidentally searched for the method of reading on the Internet, and then came across Professor Zhang Wuchang's theories and thoughts. Zhang Wuchang is one of the founders of modern new institutional economics and modern property rights economics. His book "The Theory of Tenant Farmers" won the University of Chicago Political Economy Award. Regarding the method of learning, Zhang Wuchang also put forward the insights gained through observation in the education field for many years. Here are three things not to do and to do to make learning more effective.

3 Don't

• Taking notes in class

Whether in class or in a speech, the speakers on the stage used briefings, blackboard writing and oral dictation as the transmission of knowledge. In order to jot down all the key points, we spent most of our efforts burying our heads in copying the notes. When we raised our heads again, we skipped to the next one. The point is.

Zhang Wu often said that notes are secondary or even dispensable. Copying notes while listening is too distracting! Copying down what you don't understand and ignoring the need to concentrate on understanding the main point of the speaker is more than worth the loss.

The purpose of notes is to simply write down keywords, add concepts not mentioned in the book, or mark things you don’t understand so that you can ask questions.

• Read each point and chapter of the text separately

Open a unit of the textbook, the text is divided into several chapters, and these chapters are linked to each other. However, students are accustomed to carrying out each item separately, but they are unable to master it and reduce the learning efficiency.

• Select Nutrition Credits Only

If you are a college student, you must have done this: Before choosing a course, go to the online forum to find out which teachers are very good and which courses are "nutrition credits" (the courses are simple and the points are looser)... Zhang Wuchang Pointing out the common bad habits of college students, he said, "Learning with a master, you get 1 out of 10 or 2, it's far better than learning 8 or 9 out of 10 with a mediocre person."

3 Do

• Understanding instead of remembering

After entering middle school, the old method of "memorizing more points" gradually became insufficient. For example, in mathematics, the formulas in the textbooks were implanted into the brain, and faced with various changing questions in the examination room, even if I wanted to apply the formulas, I couldn't start. Learning must be integrated, thinking must be penetrated , and the more profound the memory will be if you understand it.

• Run away from books when you're not reading

This is interesting and reminds me of the habit of returning books and clutter to the same place every night before going to bed. The longer a book is kept in sight, the more lazy it is to open it, the more time it takes to finish reading it, the more I can’t help but buy a new book and go home when I walk into the bookstore, accumulating evil into a habit. Zhang Wuchang's word "hungry book" means Jobs' classic saying "thirsty for knowledge", escape from books when you are not reading! The next time you open a book, you will be doubly immersed in your studies.

• Q>A

Learning without asking cannot become knowledge. A lot of times I'm afraid to raise my hand to speak, and I'm afraid to ask "too stupid" questions and attract attention. However, Zhang Wuchang said, "There has never been such a thing as being 'too shallow' in learning". Only by understanding from the shallow to the deep can you study solidly. What's more, the teacher is standing in front of you and is already prepared to solve the students' doubts!

If you don’t know how to ask questions, you can follow this formula — 2W1H : What?How?Why?

What asks about the facts, How is the method, Why is the theory

Habits can be changed

The above three do&don't are not limited to school learning, but can apply the concepts to self-growth and autonomous learning, find out the mistakes we often make and try to correct them.

Habits can be changed, and good habits can change a person.

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