Learning How to Learn!

         "Learning how to learn" is a deceptively simple phrase. However, their ramifications are quite significant. For many people, learning has always been constituted by a single relationship.: the one between teacher and student. The teacher disseminates knowledge, while the student takes it in. It seems that it has only been in recent centuries where society has had the opportunities to carefully scrutinize this traditional formation, and tried to augment a tried and true method. This has enabled academics and teachers to create more inclusive teaching methods. 

         As a result, there is finally an environment where people from all walks of life are able to learn in ways that transcend traditional teaching structures. Self-directed learning and cooperative learning are both possible only because of this change in paradigm. Perhaps the most important thing is that even within the traditional educational formula, there have been augmentations that have helped teachers to better engage and motivate their students. "Learning to learn" is not about learning, but is really about how different people learn and how to design an effective framework to maximize every student's potential.