Practical Education

The Meaning of Practical Education

PRACTICAL EDUCATION is not becoming the best nor being taught by the best. Practical education is becoming among the best in the shortest amount of time. For this we can follow in the footsteps of someone who has accomplished such a feat. This is the difference between absolute and relative learning.

Practical Education can be a Community effort, but is never a codependent one. It is where each person learns in an independent manner, while improving on the methods used by others, with others improving on methods created by the individual. This includes helping another understand a certain topic. It is not when many people learn from the same individual, because that hinders the group as a whole, dooming them to learn at the rate of the slowest learner.

The Principles of Practical Education

1. 80% of a skill can be learned with 20% the effort of mastery.

2. Practical Education loses practicality once focus is lost. You learn at a much faster rate if you concentrate.

3. If learning another skill can be accomplished with the same amount of effort as advancing one skill, learning the skill is preferred.

4. Aiming “unreasonably high” achieves more than aiming too low.

5. True practical education is self-taught and free or very near free.

6. Open-mindedness is needed if you want to learn things quickly.

7. Learning as a group is ineffective

8. Small goals are easy to accomplish, so a ladder system is an effective tool to accomplish the “unreasonably high” goals

9. Many of the most common methods of education are horribly ineffective

10. Methods can always be improved