How to Learn on Your Own: Creating an Independent Scholar Resource Plan

One of the most challenging and gratifying parts of learning alone is the opportunity to search for and select your own learning material. Students in traditional classrooms usually don’t get to decide how they are going to master course content. Instructors decide for them in the form of textbook selection, quizzes, tests, group projects, etc. As an independent learner, you can make your study time more effective by using only the learning methods that work for you. A resource plan is a document used to brainstorm the learning material you can use when you begin your studies. This article will show you how to create a resource plan to use in your independent studies. Step 1: Set a Goal The first step to creating a resource plan is to decide on a single goal. Ineffective Goal – Learn HTMLEffective Goal – Create several websites using HTML, referring only minimally to a coding book. Step 2: Collect Materials Books – The written word is still one of the best ways to learn a subject.

Introduction to Self-Education Welcome to SelfMadeScholar.com. This blog is all about self-education – people learning what they want to know without formal schools or classrooms. Let’s start with the basics: What is self-education? Self-education is learning in its purest form. You can start at any age, whether you’re one or one-hundred. Why self-education? Take a look at almost any great historical figure and you’ll find that he is a product of self-education. Consider these examples: Abigail Adams received no formal education. Renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell decided not to follow his plans to earn a doctorate degree. and The Hero With a Thousand Faces – works that are still studied on college campuses today. Early American patriot Benjamin Franklin ended his formal education when he was just ten years old. , invented products such as the lighting rod and bifocal glasses, and assisted in the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Too old-fashioned you say? and Fahrenheit 451 What should I learn? Happy studying.

Project: Start a Commonplace Book Creating a commonplace book can help you keep track of your educational journey. It’s a place to record favorite quotes from the books you read, ideas you have, and questions that arise from your studies. Over time, your commonplace book will turn into a record of who you’ve been and how you’ve changed. What is a Commonplace Book? A commonplace book is essentially a scrapbook / compilation of information that the creator deems relevant. Wikipedia puts it this way: “Commonplace books (or commonplaces) were a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books…Such books were essentially books filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Personal commonplace books were used by many great writers and thinkers including John Milton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, and Mark Twain. How Are Modern Commonplace Books Used? Step 3: Keep it Up

The American Scholar: A Declaration of Intellectual Independence “The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be a university of knowledges. If there be one lesson more than another, which should pierce his ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.” Just 61 years after the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, Ralph Waldo Emerson offered a declaration of his own urging Americans to stop being “parrot[s] of other men’s thinking.” The groundbreaking speech, later titled The American Scholar, is a treasure trove of autodidactic insight. In his speech, Emerson draws attention to three ways that people can become independent thinkers and free themselves from over-reliance upon the ideas of others. Learn from Nature Study the Past

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