curiosity

Imagine I wasn’t the nestling the emperor penguin had. I was the froglet wherein the frog let her babies find their food for their own survival without a help from adults unlike the emperor penguin who take good care of the youngsters until they know how to survive. In sculpting knowledge, I was not a penguin. I was a froglet.  

At the onset of learning, I believed that learning is not always spoon feeding. As my cognition develops, my curiosity grows. The first time I saw bulk of books in the library, I asked myself, “How much time my teachers need to teach me these piles of books?” And replied murmuring: “Nah! Impossible!” My curiosity paved a way to start browsing each books in that library.

Aside from books, the society around me contributed a lot in my curiosity of knowledge. Movies, comics, magazines, newspapers, neighbourhood sophisticated my learning. Also through observational learning, I also had profound lessons from their mistakes and failures.

Autodidacticism; self-learning, a book worm, self-reliant.  Assimilation and accommodation of the new materials increase my schemas. Materials that maybe I understood the other way around because of its consistencies of my previous schemas. How I had interpreted it with my own understanding because of the absence of a constructivist mentor. I still had to make surveys and assessments from MKO just to confirm if I understood it right.

Being a froglet, it pushed me to become the owner of my own learning. But I must admit, constructivist learning is more intellectually appealing, refine and sophisticated than autodidacticism. I had self-studied but at times (maybe) my information was lacking, incomplete, obsolete or misguided. I wasn’t lucky enough to have this constructivist mentor.

In my early school years, I had traditional, dominative studies. I don’t remember when I had this constructivist learning, except my later years. Maybe there was, but I just didn’t notice it. But being a More Knowledgeable Other, yes I was. My teacher formed us groups to have collaborative studies and task-making activities. Non-competent students are being helped by MKO like us. My being persistent, active, hardworking, intelligent and responsible froglet was been noticed by my dominant teachers. Maybe because I advanced my learning due to my curiosity?

Learning has various choices. Either way, constructivism or autodidacticism, the main thing is your personality must be rooted at aiming enormous knowledge from every angle of disciplines, skills and society’s upbringing.