It’s not so difficult to do it, you just need to be alert – it can be some news item on the radio or on TV or a post on Facebook. I like to impress my classmates with some quote they’ve never heard or some anecdote they don’t know. It’s so flexible compared with schools, scheduled lectures and things like that.
Graduation shouldn’t be a full stop in your professional development. To be a good specialist you need to learn all the time, look through online publications concerning your job and so on. I mean if you’ve graduated from a university – even if you’ve graduated with honours – it doesn’t mean you know everything that is necessary to do your job effectively. I guess self-education now is a must for everyone who wants to be a real pro. Moreover, having teachers means they are somehow responsible for your education and that’s good news for me. I do what my teachers tell me to do and I’m happy to have their guidance. I’m lazy and I’ll never do an exercise if it’s not officially announced as homework by our teacher. You need to be organized and disciplined for self-education, but I’m not like that at all. I know self-education has many advantages, but honestly it’s not for me. I think this way you can learn much more than while sitting in a stuffy lecture hall listening to teachers. You can visit practically any museum and see and read about their exhibits, and you can watch documentaries and other educational programs. You can educate yourself taking online courses, reading books and research papers. With Internet access in every home, I don’t see any point of going to school or entering a university. Now I know the basis of self-education is to be on good terms with books. I asked them where they had got it from and they said they had learnt a lot because they had read many books – not the books you have to read but books they simply wanted to read.
I remember when I was a child, I would be surprised every time my mom or dad answered a quiz question or did a crossword. My parents say self-education is a great thing and I tend to agree with them. I guess that’s the essence of self-education – relying only on yourself while studying. You need to be motivated and you shouldn’t just hope professors will teach you everything. But I seriously think that no teacher or professor can make you take in the information if you don’t feel like it. That’s the point of going to schools or universities. Of course, everybody knows that we need to live and learn. Tanon 38 _ in wonder – was this some sort of magical object? Показать Спрятать Swirling mists and patterns drifted over its outer layer and a pale pulsing light seemed to throb from its core. 37 _ as he was standing up, his prize started to change. He had to get the cattle inside before the full force of the storm came to bear down on the farm. Dark clouds were forming 36 _ smoke billowing from an open fire and Tanon knew he had not much time before the rain came. Should he take it immediately to his master or could he hold 35 _ to its smoothness for just a little longer? A clap of thunder broke his daydream and he turned his gaze heavenwards. At least, Tanon presumed it was precious, but now he had a decision to 34 _. Yet there was no strike – just the beautiful curves of this most precious of objects. He was fascinated by it and it 33 _ his gaze like a venomous snake did its prey, just before making its lethal strike. It was fashioned like no other stone that Tanon had ever seen. Well, not exactly cold, more cool and smooth. That morning Tanon, a young farmer’s boy, discovered a strange stone in the cattle shed.