Self-directed learning, in its broadest meaning, describe a process in which individuals take the initiative with or without the help of others. in diagraving their learning needs. formulation of learning goals,identifying resources for learning, choosing and implementing learning strategies and evaluating learning outcomes. Thus, it is important to attain new know.ties easily and skilfully for the rest of his or her life.What is the need for self-directed learning ? One vent w. is that there is convincing evidence that people,who take the initiative in learning, learn more thing, wowi learn better than people waiting to be taught. The second reason is that self-directed learning is more in tune with our natural processes of psychological development: an essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility of our own lives to become increasingly self-directed. The third reason is that many of the new development in education put a heavy responsibility on the learners to take a good deal of initiative in their own learning.
To meet the challenges in today's instructive environment. self-directed learning is most essential.
“Why do they pull down and do away with crooked streets, I wonder, which are my delight, and hurt no man living? Every day the wealthier nations are pulling down one or another in their capitals and their great towns: they do not know why they do it; neither do I. It ought to be enough, surely, to drive the great broad ways which commerce needs and which are the life-channels of a modern city, without destroying all history and all the humanity in between: the islands of the past.”
(From Hilaire Belloc’s “The Crooked Streets”)
Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?
“His life was divided between the books, his friends, and long walks. A solitary man, he worked at all hours without much method, and probably courted his fatal illness in this way. To his own name there is not much to show; but such was his liberality that he was continually helping others, and fruits of his erudition are widely scattered, and have gone to increase many a comparative stranger’s reputation.” (From E.V. Lucas’s “A Funeral”)
Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?
Until he was ten Alex attended the nearby Allen School. He was then transferred to Moor School which he attended with his Sisters. Alex learned a good deal about nature during that three mile downhill hike to school and the three mile uphill return trip. He was a quick student and at twelve, the age limit prescribed for Moor School, he was sent to Markil Academy . Two years later he joined his sisters Zen and Jesia at the home of his elder brother Tom, who was to become a successful occultist in Paris. However, the economic success of the family was yet to be and Alex was forced to leave school for economic reasons. When he was fifteen he obtained a job in shipping company. Good fortune, however, was on his side and on the side of humanity. In 1901, he received a share in a legacy which made it possible for him to return to school. He decided to study medicine.