M inistry o f Higher and Secondary Specialized Education o f the Republic o f Uzbekistan

Ю Reasons
Why Practical
- When we are practically looking at things and 
experiencing it, we do not need to cram it from a 
book. You might spend hours learning the climatic 
conditions o f Africa but a visit to A frica can stick the 
picture in your mind instantly and very effectively. 
Not mugging up takes o ff loads o f pressure form a 
student’s brain thus helping in the learning process 
and also for relieving stress from over their heads.
- 
— W hen we are cramming a lesson for a test, our 
brain tends to remember it for a short while which 
can be shorter than the duration o f your test thus not 
serving that purpose also because our brain forgets it 
easily. While doing it practically, it can be in form of 
experiments, real life projects or educational trips, the 
knowledge and the whole learning experience stays in 
our m ind for long.
- Just by reading about a phenomenon or a lesson, 
it cannot get straight to your m ind even though it may 
be explained in the best manner. You actually got to see 
it happening in front o f your eyes and not by hearing 
it in somebody else’s words. Practical knowledge can 
help a lot over here because it is all there.
- Reading a lesson over and over again can be of 
little help. But performing activities or experiments 
based on it involves practice and you have heard it 
right, “Practice makes a man perfect”. So just sitting 
in a corner with a book or listening to a lecture has
no practice involved unless the theoretical teaching* 
converted into practical activities.
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Training and exercise are meant to improve уоЛ 
skills which cannot be obtained by just theoretic® 
knowledge. Theory can provide one with oodles of 
expertise and proficiency but it can never deliver those 
kinds of results and improved skills that you can gd 
from practical education.
- I spent whole o f m y middle school wonderinj 
that what purpose it solves by knowing Sine thea 
square plus cosine theta square equals one. But 
when introduced to its applications I realized wha] 
importance trigonometry holds in architecture and 
its related fields. So unless you are applying youi 
theoretical knowledge to real life situations througH 
practical experiments theory doesn’t hold mucn 
good and you w ill keep wondering that why you are 
studying that particular topic.
- Field trips, projects, experiments, don’t they 
interest you more than books, assignments and 
lectures? I am sure they do, because they are so 
much more interesting and engrossing than reading 
your regular bookish material. I manage to survive 
through a one hour long chemistry class but give me 
an experiment and I can stay busy in it for hours.
- This is pretty obvious. W hen you find something 
interesting and have got your heart in it does seen

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9 Discuss in pairs the following questions.
j. What other features can be included as valuable 
(except above-mentioned) for practical and 
laboratory lessons?
2. What can you say about benefits o f practical and 
laboratory activities?
3. What is meant by practical and laboratory work
I skills?
4. What laboratory equipment is used in your field of 
speciality?