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Study
quick ideas about study. Benefits of study. Qualities that are developed. Study techniques.
Español1. What is study?
Study is an activity of the intelligence aimed at understanding or memorizing something.
2. Types of study?
- The student's study. When study is done with a view to increasing knowledge or passing an exam. It is the student's profession and the usual meaning of study.
- The professional's study. When one studies in order to prepare a report or make a decision.
- Non-work study. This is the most frequent and consists in the deliberation proper to prudence. It is reflection on data and circumstances. For example, comparing prices and quality before buying something.
3. Benefits of study?
- In its professional aspects — whether student or not — it is evident that study allows one to carry out one's profession well.
- In its deliberative aspect, it is clear that deliberation is appropriate when facing important decisions.
- One benefit of study is acquiring the habit of reflecting, of deepening into matters, so that frivolity or superficiality are avoided. Consequently, the crises of childhood and adolescence are overcome more easily.
- Through study, knowledge and culture increase, and other qualities are developed.
4. What other qualities are developed by studying?
A student who studies acquires many qualities without realizing it (which are also acquired by whoever works well):
- It is clear that the student improves in industriousness, intelligence and constancy since he exercises them.
- Study also exercises order, necessary to organize ideas.
- Fortitude, because one does not always feel like studying and effort is required.
- Justice and responsibility in fulfilling one's duties.
5. How to cultivate the habit of study?
The answer comes on its own: by studying. In addition, study can be improved through various techniques that one learns through studying, or by hearing them from others.
6. Some study techniques?
- Making the most of classes. Classes attended well save hours of study.
- Underlining what is important. This allows one to fix attention and learn to grasp what is essential. Afterward, it will accelerate review.
- Making an outline when appropriate. It is a way to organize and record the important ideas.
- Using books. The internet can help in specific matters, but often one wastes time. Some websites provide information, often only superficial. Normally, the author of a book has studied the subject more extensively and in depth, as can be seen by the number of pages. Books help carry out a true study of subjects (unless the books are like some websites: lots of pictures and little substance). There are also useful websites.
- Films and videos do not serve as a substitute for study.
7. Why do films and videos not serve for study?
Films and videos normally convey images and sensations, which are superficial, sensory aspects. And the bombardment of the senses hinders the use of intelligence, which is the faculty used in studying. For this very reason, those who devote themselves to sex and revelry find it more difficult to study seriously. Their senses are so oversaturated that it is hard for them to think.