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Valery Kourinsky
Prefacing Remarks
It seems almost a miracle that the contemporary methods of teaching have not completely stifled the sacred curiosity, for this small tender plant first and foremost requires encouragement as well as freedom. It would be a great mistake to suppose that sense of duty and duress enables the joy of research and learning. A healthy, predatory beast would refuse food, if he were forced by a whip to continuously eat meat, especially when it was not he who had made that coercive choice.
AuthorA man who applying in his work over twenty foreign languages (among them such as Hungarian and Chinese) would like to share his thoughts with you. The ideas provided in this book deal with various aspects of self-education, mnemotechnique, speed of studying the subjects chosen, gerontological need for lifelong learning.
The systematic approach suggested consists of three parts:
I.
Meditations on the mechanical part of autodidactics (acquisition of skills in independent assuming of knowledge).
II.
Meditations on peripherization of selflearning as such and focusing in the spiritual (acquisition of heuristic skills, development of creativity, etc.)
III.
Meditations on constructing a personality, on connections between past and present, on the intensification of spiritual and intellectual life of an individual (acquisition of knowledge, necessary for correcting plans of life, making right choices, re-evaluating moral priorities, etc.)
Biopsychic essence of the systematic approach to an autodidactics lies in an integrative method, i.e. a method integrating data of various sciences not connected with pedagogy at the first sight. But, as practice proves, in this case it is possible to promptly develop the interest actualization technique on which in its turn the integrative method is entirely based.
To an uninitiated eye, many of paradoxical methods of selfstudying, which will be offered to you, are prompted by the wish to apply the latest achievements in the sciences on brain.
With the aim of intensive accumulation of diversified knowledge the author of "Autodidactics" worked out the technique of applying known associative methods using which it is possible to assimilate frequent vocabulary of Hungarian within 1-2 months or all basic historic dates within 2-3 weeks.
In all his attempts to promote autodidactics (selfstudying) the author is guided by the thought of the great Russian writer L. Tolstoy: "Life is a talent given us for growing."Basic aims of autodidactics
- Development of selfstudying skills in any field of knowledge (within the system by V. Kurinsky).
- Harmonization of thinking.
- Liquidation of studied helplessness.
- Mastering of movement culture (both muscular and gestalt).
- Algorithmization of studying simultaneously a culturological group of subjects (on the basis of practical preparation for simultaneous selfstudying of English, German and French).* * *
| I have not lived at all but spent a bit of life as if the summer days on yellow beach on tiny standstill of the inner speech, on birdy island near a ducky dive, on warming ground of needy new survive in every quarrel's minute, time of which is dead from illness - giant's rainy reach that we in middle of us have and I've so often thought is a gloomy helper for young weak wills, when I was like a Kepler, discovering the harmony of world in every simple cluster of a dust of invisible, thin and painy crust that once upon a time the Love was called. |
Regards,
Valery Kourinsky
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