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"We are drowning in information and starving in knowledge" - Rutherfold D Rogers

There are 2 kinds of learning skills:

Memorization, recall, and iteration are among a set of learning skills researchers have come to call respondent. You may think of them as "passive" skills employed to absorb and play back information, as well as to apply learned rules and formulae when called upon.

Another set of skills are called operant. These are employed in analysis, synthesis, and comparison; they "operate" on information rather than simply retain and reiterate it. These are the skills that develop understanding, build and test ideas, and solve new problems.

While the 'respondent' skills are necessary, they are not sufficient to make an individual successful. It is extremely important to develop and master the operant skills for two main reasons:

1. Promote intellectual growth and foster academic achievement gains: As children progress through the school curriculum, they confront increasingly complex thinking and learning tasks which demand use of more complex skills. Many of the skills needed to cope with these tasks should be learnt right from early childhood. By teaching these learning and thinking skills at several appropriate points in a child's academic career, it is possible to produce impressive and enduring improvements in academic performance.

2. Excel in the rapidly changing information age: Society has entered a postindustrial information age, where growth and change are so rapid that in many fields as much as half of the information becomes outdated in as few as five years. Dynamic change of this magnitude demands that society needs learners who have the skills to learn on their own rather than simply having learned individuals. Individuals equipped with these skills will far outshine the others in this information age. Think A+ specializes in making a student master these operant "Learning and Thinking Skills".