Africa-Press – Lesotho. Those who master the art of reading and comprehension will, consequently acquire the art of lifelong learning. Lifelong learning has been conceived as the capacity to learn throughout life.
In this piecewe discuss the link or nexus between the ability to read closely as an enduring aspect of life and lifelong learning. But why lifelong learning? The world is in a flux; the world and its arrangements are not static.
Things change every day. What you learn now will become obsolete tomorrow. So what would make you move with the changing times is your ability to keep on learning.
Those who master the art of reading and reading closely do well in life and in their chosen careers and vocations because they keep on reinventing themselves.
Reading is not a passive act; it is a deliberate, active and transformative exercise which trains your mind and hone your aptitudes so as to adapt to life’s seasonal changes and circumstances.
While reading has been seen as training the affective senses (that is, the emotional and sensibile aspects of humanity); it goes beyond that. Reading harnesses one’s ability to reflect, observe and foster the ability to always creatively reimage and recalibrate one’s world.
Close readers are deliberative and observant. They are able to piece, as it were, life’s seemingly disparate aspects. Reading opens vistas of knowledge and insights.
Mastery of close reading and comprehension strategies is the gateway to the acquisition of lifelong skills and aptitudes. If you learn the art of reading at a formative stage in life, you are in good stead to succeed.
As we already have demonstrated, there is a lot of knowledge and insights which emanates from an ability and facility to read closely. Let us demonstrate this through an extract.
“In the game, the man who masters himself and at the same time surrenders cannot be a slave.
Slaves are such as surrender to the game without mastering themselves or the reverse: it is the dialectic of domination-submission that distinguishes man as master, the dominator, and the slave.
Likewise in love. There are men who win at a poker, even when they lose money. They have such control of their nerves, and at the same time so daring, that their opponents are subjected, have no initiative, wait for their reactions, their wishes.
They are gentlemen who can hazard on a card all that they have won, just for the pleasure of taking the risk. Their opponents may win, in the sense that they walk away with more money than they began with, but the true Victor was the one who made them pale, purse their lips, chew their nails, shake, and regret for a moment playing.
The true master, the conqueror, is not angry at losing; that it his moment of control and, if in fact he imposes his authority, he is content with the defeat.
It is men with wretched temperaments who suffer in losing. In war, likewise, there are masters, those who decide. They are not necessarily chiefs, although these characteristics are only fully revealed in a situation of command.
They are the dominant, in the end the most magnanimous to their opponents. They wage war, to some extent like someone playing at roulette: it is a means of confronting oneself with the other face.
They are tortured. In clear thinking they understand that the enemy before them, taken as an individual, is a man as they are; but he is defending the side of injustice and must be annihilated.
What a powerful extract that demonstrates that there is more in reading! Have you seen that this passage is somewhat a lesson in conquering one’s fears, building resilience and building self-confidence? The extract is also about getting the right perspective of things.
This extract is motivational as it is psychological. But it is more than that; it’s a small treatise about being daring but in control of our physical, mental and emotional dispositions.
It is an extract which has taught us, as it were, that you can win even if you have lost. Where does this leave us? Well, we are still pursuing the point that the art of reading well and closely helps us to learn throughout life, and we learn on our own. We acquire lifelong lessons which will help us refine ourselves, adapt to changing seasons and circumstances and acquire new ways of seeing.
Source:The Post
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