Chapter Three: The Law of Activity

· Maximum learning is always the result of maximum involvement.

· Over and again in his book, Hendricks criticizes passivity and dependency: we are working to make our students active and independent or at least interdependent.

· This will ensure students learn best as they are most active in the process.

· They need to be guided in their practice, taught to properly evaluate their experience, and learn not by repeating their mistakes but by doing the right things.

· According to Hendricks, hearing is the most inefficient means of learning. People only retain at the most ten percent of what they hear.

· But they will retain up to fifty percent of what they see and up to ninety percent of what they do.

· In activity-based teaching, one must make sure that the activities are meaningful, providing direction without dictatorship, stressing function and application, having a planned purpose, and concerned with process (the why) as well as product (the what).

· As much as possible these activities should involve solving realistic problems or case studies and if possible, those arising within the experiences of the student.

Chapter Three Application: Go to Lesson 3