Education is an integral part of a person’s life. Health, which is gained by maintaining a healthy life for a long time, can be ruined in a second by an accident.
Wealth, which has to be earned after huge hardships and investing a lot of energy along with time, takes only moments to be lost in the hands of robbers or a bad financial decision.
But once a man becomes educated, the knowledge he gains through the process is never lost. He cherishes those throughout his whole life.
Moreover, this knowledge can be used to recover lost health and wealth. So education is something which marks a permanent and valuable asset in one’s life.
But here arises a question, when is the best time to get educated?
- Best Time for Learning
Though we are often told that there are specific periods in man’s life to do certain things, it is quite surprising that there are no such barriers in case of receiving education.
Anyone can get started from any age given that they have the will power for learning something new.
But the most fascinating thing about education is that, once it has started, it might not necessarily have a perfect pinpoint end. People can always learn something in every sphere of their lives.
This terminology of keeping the education is referred to as “lifelong learning”. People who have dedicated themselves in this journey of learning something new are termed as “lifelong learners”.
No, this is not some kind of financial scam implemented to launder money from people in the name of education.
One does not need to get admission in any fancy school and pay a huge sum of fees throughout the year for this kind of education.
On the contrary, there is no school which provides such courses to the public.
Lifelong learning is something one needs to maintain personally in order to improve themselves.
But why do we need to keep learning until our last breath?
- Importance of Lifelong Learning
Lifelong learning is not something like being “A corporate slave”. This is totally a volunteer decision and people do this for their own good.
In the rapidly changing world, where new technologies are introduced daily, people need to keep themselves updated to cope up with them.
In order to keep ourselves updated, we need to keep learning about those new things. If we do not do so, we will lag in the rat race and sooner or later be caught up in a trap.
Even if we want to lead a very simple and normal life, learning new things is a must. In the survival kit of the modern age, education is the one and only thing.
And on the bright side it brings us endless possibilities, new ways to lead our lives and also ways to make our little lives more known in this huge universe.
But how do we keep us motivated to keep the learning ongoing?
- Tips to Keep on Learning
We know sometimes education can get a little boring. We are not always in the mood to keep motivated to study also.
The following tips might come very handy in situations like this :
- Do not force yourself. Not everyday is the day to learn. We need to take breaks and do something recreational in the meantime to keep things interesting.
- Setting goals. Specific goals with deadlines need to be set for the best outcomes. We need to make a system to keep us going.
- Realistic learning outcomes. We need to learn things which are related to our daily lives, vocation or passion. If the topic we are learning doesn’t concern any of these, it gets hard to keep up.
Lastly we need to remember that we are doing all these for our own good. We are ones who will be the most benefited in this journey.
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Rifah Zakiah
Intern, Content Writing Department
YSSE