How to Achieve High Learning Efficiency Recently, I read a book named #Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track#, which was written by Russell L. Ackoff and Daniel Greenberg. The main idea of this book is that the education system in America betrays the essence of education and needs a radical revolution. I was quite surprised when I first found this conclusion on the preface of this book. However, after I read through it, I hold this is very informative and instructional book, which provides lots of interesting and insightful points. I want to share one of them with you. According to the authors, the education policy makers confuse learning with teaching. Traditional education believes, for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. However, this is not the truth. Most of what we learnt are learnt without it being taught. For example, a child can learn how to walk or eat without being taught by its parents. Likewise, adults learn most of what they use at work by themselves. Therefore, education shall focus on learning rather than teaching. We can even have no people actually teaching at school and only let those "teachers" do some guidance work if the learner make some serious mistakes. Students' curiosity will find its ways to the answers. This is a very enlightening point which reminds me of my experience of learning geography. When I was a high school student, I considered geography was boring and never listened carefully to my geography teacher. However, in one summer vacation, I played a computer game named #Uncharted Water#, in which, as the captain of a ship, my task was to make money as much as I can by means of transporting goods from one place to another (for example, transport bananas from Manila to Stockholm). In order to achieve that goal, I needed to know the developed seaports all over the world and where they were located on the world map. Meanwhile, I also needed to know how ocean current worked so I could make the full use of it to facilitate my transportation. As a result, I became an expert in geography without any outside pressure from teacher or parents threatening they would beat me up if I failed to learn those knowledge. Meanwhile, all the knowledge was learnt by myself with an amazingly high efficiency. I believe this experience supports authors' argument. Thank you for all the people who help me point out the mistakes in this essay. Hope the above sharing is of help to you.