Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages,
history, ___16___ methods, geography, physics, chemistry, and
mathematics. Others go to school to learn skills in order to make a
living. ___17___ education is very useful and important. Yet, no one
can ___18___ everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much
he knows, cannot teach his students everything they want to know.
The teacher's main job is to show his students how to learn. He
teaches them how to read and how to think. So, much more is to be
learned outside school by the students themselves.
It is always more important to know how to study by oneself than
to ___19___ some facts or some skills. It is quite easy to learn a
certain fact in history or a formula in mathematics. But it is very
___20___ to use a formula in working out a math problem.
Great scientists didn't get everything from school. Edison didn't even
finish junior school. And yet, he ___21___ so many new things. These
scientists were so ___22___, but their teachers only showed them the
way. The ___23___ their success was that they knew how to study.
They read books that they were not taught at school. They would
ask many questions as they read. They did _._24___ experiments.
They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. Most
important was that they knew how to use their ___25___.