Dilip Mukerjea writes in his new book, Learning How to Learn (not yet released; still in the works; this is a sneak preview!):

WHAT IS LEARNING?

LEARNING is the creation of a relationship between two things:

(1) The Known (2) The Unknown

The ability to learn how to learn, and to learn rapidly, is a vital 21st century skill!

Strategies are the secret to learning. A 'strategy' is nothing more than a specific way of organising your resources in order to consistently get the specific results you want. 

The ultimate strategies are mental and emotional because they shape and influence everything else.

Most of our classrooms are stultifying children. Dead data, lifeless facts, mind-numbing rote-regimes that leach the genius out of every child.

 Such regimens leave children enchained between the darkness of a dead past and the obscurity of an unknown future.

You do not need to know all the answers; you do need to know how to ask questions, and thus to manifest solutions... and then the answers emerge! 

Although teachers may be wise, sometimes they are otherwise. But the brilliancy of an incomparable teacher generates lectures that breathe optimism, where human harmony prevails and the students:

 can see opportunities where others see only problems

 are helped to influence outcomes where others are stuck

 are enabled to create solutions where others are challenged.

The interest of the learner in a vibrant classroom is stimulated by the interplay of two themes that recur almost like melodies in the sonata of life evolving, and give the experience an intellectual resplendence.

These encounters contain themes that are the role of conscious human activity in the creation of knowledge and the imagination content of that knowledge. Thus the integrity of the student matches the vision of the teacher.

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." ~ Frederick Douglas

Curiosity maintains momentum. Great teachers catalyse students towards learning mastery. 

A 'master' is someone who has a comprehensive grasp of all the nuances in his or her field, and exhibits dexterity with:

 Adaptive Agility: aware that the best at any point does not ultimately win; it's the one who is most adaptive, the one with the widest range of responses.

 Strategic Amplification: where, with a 'multiplier effect' the student learns how small influential moves create huge leverage gains.

 Game Transformer: enacting events that transcend what is, to what can be ... beyond the anaesthetic of stale encounters into the aesthetics of a vibrant aliveness.

 Positive Momentum: spotting the invisible forces at play that drive one forward, from hope to fulfillment.

It may not be easy, but it is worth it! Remember that some of the best days of your life haven't happened yet! Break out of static thought into the open vistas of creative possibilitiy.