10-second review: “Essential” learning is for exams. “Advantageous” learning is your wanting to know because you want to know.
Source: Title: How to Study in College. Third Edition. Walter Pauk. Boston
Summary/Quote: “Essential learning is not voluntary learning based on ‘wanting to know’ and it does not have much sticking power. Advantageous learning stems from an intense intellectual curiosity—a burning desire to learn something, to know. Such learning has great sticking power….” pp. 78-79.
Comment: I might agree with the term “essential” for learning motivated by fear of failing exams. However, I would probably call “advantageous” learning “real” learning. You learn because you want to know something. RayS.
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