Evaluation

At the end of the year, it is a good practice to stop and evaluate our performance before we head into the New Year. Evaluation allows us to be able to know where we want to go in the future and to learn from past mistakes. Evaluation, the highest step in critical thinking, thus allows us to have vision of the future and knowledge of the past. Having these qualities, provides us with inner clarity.

Students often think like this "But I don't want to make any mistakes, I want my performance to be perfect." Thus, they undervalue the function of evaluation. In reality, without errors there can be real understanding of any subject. After all, what does it value a student to retake a subject they already understand? Real learning comes with the difficult realization that knowledge must be acquired.

Then when we look back, we can evaluate our performance before moving forward to the future. This makes real learning possible.

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