Learning and leaps of faith -beyond realms of mindpower

The hard truth about learning a language... 

It comes without a users manual. All you need is a DIY set.
Face it. It is something you must do by yourself.

EXPLAIN in your own words the statement below:

To quote an unnamed source:

• Ordinary methods in the teaching field have proven useless at best, and the most honest account is to say that when it works, we must assume the methods had to be asssessed as unnecessary ...

From a learner's log:

What English did I learnt last week? A learning experience is not what passively happens to me; it is what I DO with what happens to me.

Read the quotes below about knowledge and learning and select 2-3 to disccuss with your partner

• “Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."
• Learning facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
• “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
• "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt. - Patrick White
• Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.


To use quotes properly, read Ms Holland info

 Speaking a new language involves learning to think and process a new set of notions (identity?)  as when the maharaja od limerick



In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education, Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.”




To quote an unnamed source:
Ordinary methods in this field have proven  useless at best, and  the most hones account is to say that when it works, then the methods had to be asssessed as unnecessary ...