Chapter Two: The Law of Education

· How people learn determines how you teach.

· People are only candidates for learning when they know they don’t know and when they care about that.

· Borrowing from American psychologist Abaraham Maslow’s theories of self actualization, Hendricks speaks of four levels of learning: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence.

· The teacher’s job is to help students to see themselves in this continuum and to get them moving.

· This will often involve exposing them to their ignorance in a motivational manner.

· Then teachers must be alert to “teachable moments”

· Then, by precept and example, the teacher must teach people how to think, to learn and to work, and develop in them four master skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking.

· All of these components help assure that students who sit in classes will truly learn rather than merely observing.

Chapter Two Application: Go to Lesson 2