Essay On Benefits Of Learning

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As a student, the idea of higher grades without learning surely has its appeal. Learning, however, is a term too vast to be used loosely; well, learning would teach a greater sense of self-discipline because it comes from an obvious degree of hard work. On the other hand, learning must include into one's taste and talent, else it is quite useless: for instance, an accountant would learn the art of constructing mathematical registers/records and so, to him, a syllabus in psychology would be rather pointless, would it not? Nevertheless, one can easily argue that his "learning" enables him to attain a greater level of intellectual satisfaction and thus, proves beneficial to him. But what about the grades? Imagine if we were to specially …show more content…

I then came to understand how my classmates had understood the assignment and the work I realized that everything for them just moved around the grade or completion of a step. They also wanted grades than to learn the material, later I saw that few students were completing their assignments simply for the completion, not caring or worrying about the learning aspects of the assignments this problem was revolving continuously in my mind and I had many questions about how grades, motivation and learning were linked and the first question was that if learning is important, shouldn’t students be more concerned about what they are learning than what their grades will be?? According to me if students are more motivated by receiving a grade than learning then they will take several short cuts, cheats and focus on the type of learning that is not beneficial for long term understanding of their learning as it will be just enough to earn an acceptable grade which is not

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