Learning is a complex phenomena involving our sensory inputs, memory, experience, and possibly many other factors. One thing that makes me ponder is the question such as what directs learning, why one learns from an environment one thing while others a different one and some none at all? My theory is that without an objective no learning occurs. The objective may be to do something better, pass a test, impress others, or even just a curiosity. Without any such motivating factor or objective, information presented, theories read, experiences sensed simply disappear as the scene changes or time passes. For example, given the same environment / scenario to many people, each of them may be assimilating or understanding differently based on what they "want" to gather and some may not pick up anything.
So, my point is that, the effectiveness of learning can be improved by instilling a wider set of objectives in the mind of the learner. Learning simply manifests as putting specific values in the the expected slots of the frame created by the learners' objectives. Stronger is the learning when the fillers are clean, deep, tenacious!!!
More on "Objective-oriented Learning" again later ....
