Home Study or School – Closed Walls or Running corridors!
Imagine its 10:41 am in the morning. The forenoon sky has already been unequivocally drenched in daylight as an intrepid beam of light strolls through the curtains and awakens you from slumber. Scarcely able to see, your hand thoughtlessly reaches out for your phone from under the pillow. BUT OH SNAP! The screen is so freakishly bright that you think you’ve been mistakenly teleported to Sirius A. Just moments later, you’ve opened your topnotch obsession-Instagram-to check the views from a story you put the night before. Knowing there’s nothing novel, still you relentlessly scroll down your feed like the lunatic Mad Hatter. By the time the phone dies, another hour has been successfully spent in bed. Poor lordy!
However, out of the blue, the proverb ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder’ hits you. There’s a fervid urge to go to school. An impregnable desire to plod through the busy bustling school corridors. A queerly strong impulse to find yourself titter-tattering with your squad in the canteen or to sit in your favorite teacher’s class, hoping the bell never rings.
But hey, if you’re someone like me who’s speculating about what good is staying home, let me draw a clearer picture for you. The late SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has immobilized most of the socio-economic activities to an extent that the UN trade agency has warned of a straight-up $1 trillion drop in global economy by the year’s end. In such state of affairs closing down of schools is a valid measure to hamper the spread of the pandemic yet some of us view home-study parallel to being academically impaired and left out. Whereas, in actual, with an organized approach coupled with consistent studying habits we, students, can make the most out of this school break at our own pace. It’s plain as a pikestaff to state that study at school is characterized by keeping up with the teachers and your peers’ tempo of learning which at times stirs up an abstract aura of competition amongst students; largely healthy but can occasionally be straining too. Don’t you think perching on your comfy plumpy couch and going through a course book over and over again whilst a simple instrumental playlist is tuned in, is a different form of self-love?
They say that different strokes work for different folks. Similarly, every individual student has a distinct time when he/she can study with highest productivity. Not surprisingly, this naturally differs from learner to learner; night owls can most effectively study from 1 to 7pm contrary to morning lark people who achieve the peak work output before noon. Thus, the school study hours do not work for every single school kid. In addition, the world is constantly and perennially adapting to the new ways of life that advancements in technology have rendered possible. To be particular, some 33% of pupils from all around the global use online platforms to enhance learning and conserve time, whether it is connecting classroom programs or watching YouTube study tutorials (the latter you must be familiar with).If the virus outbreak can make us more tech-savvy by being at home and studying online, which wouldn’t be completely possible at school, why not thank the minuscule creature and look at the bright side.
Staying within closed walls, we’ve been put to choice between dilly-dallying the work or giving a 110% to studying. Therefore, it wouldn’t be incorrect to say that home-study is a test to our self-studying habits. For reference, Jim Rohn-an American entrepreneur-said, ‘Formal education can make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune!’ Whether you have a personal preference for closed wall or running corridors, I’ll leave you with a small eye-opener. Isaac Newton, the father of classical physics, formulated his theory of universal gravitation (or gravity) in 1687 when the Cambridge University had been lock downed because of Plague outbreak in London. So, not only home-study can prevent you from contracting and spreading the corona virus, but also give you the opportunity to do wonders-that even within the comfort-zone of your walls.
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