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The difference between the self education and going to class it is the same as the difference between active and passive listening ,,,You may have heard about active and passive listening skills in your psychology classes at College. the major characteristics of active and passive listening and show how active listening can help you develop your skills, and how passive listening might deceive you into thinking that you are mastering your skills when in fact you're simply losing your time.
Listening and hearing are two different things. Hearing involves perceiving the sound. Hearing is involuntary and may simply reflect the auditory capabilities of our brain. Listening, on the other hand, is much more active than just hearing. In fact, listening usually requires more energy than speaking as it involves receiving and interpreting the information. Listening activity is vital in the process of one's language acquisition. Reading and translation simply won't do. However, not every listening activity can be beneficial to language students, as our response to the message we hear might either be passive or active. Passive listening is not much different from hearing. For instance, many of us have found ourselves in situations where our minds would drift, we would lose our motivation in listening, and consider the information we hear as "a background noise" or pretend that we're listening just "to be polite." We think that we are listening, but in fact we are simply letting this information go past our brain.
The three, including a large correlation - diligence the student in the learning
There is a lot of difference between self education and learning from a teacher. The main points are:
Self education: Learning by a teacher:
- Time consuming - Time saving
- Needs more effort - Needs less effort
- Often confused at the end - Confidence gaining
- May lead in wrong direction - Authentic knowledge
