TO ATTAIN TRUE KNOWLEDGE: TO EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST

BY Angelita P. Oblianda

In the perspective of Ora’a, “to learn is to experience”, is a good principle that a student must be remembered and be aware of. As what many had said that experience is the best teacher.

            Many students would rather use the constructivist theory since this is the easiest and the most commonly used by many highly intellectual people. It needs a lot of experiences for a person to be considered as knowledgeable. One could come up a well-organized data if he had a lot of learnings and would be able to construct a new concept or idea out of the old ones. It was also found out that if the students are given the chance to formulate their own concept which is more acceptable to their part, their motivation to learn is enhanced because they feel the freedom to say whatever they wanted to share according to their individual experiences. So there would be less effort and sweat-free happened because the new knowledge is build with the help of the past experiences which are just put together forming a genuine work. This prior knowledge is what we call the schema.

            It is easy for the learners to relate the topic if he already had the reservoir of knowledge. He just has to recall his past knowledge and connect to the present knowledge. Just like having experimentation on the heated water. After you heated the 10 ml of water in a test tube for about 20 seconds, it would disappear. You could witness the water that is slowly disappearing in the test tube due to the heat that comes from the Bunsen burner. In this case, you would not anymore wonder why the water in the canal lost after having a hot weather. So you could make a conclusion that the water upon heating, creates moist that would turn to gas resulting to what we call evaporation.

            This is how constructivist theory was done. The best learning took place when you experience a lot and come up with a new and highly intellectual conclusion based from the past knowledge and experiences.