Continuous Learning is The Real Learning

by - September 13, 2017


No one can have the sign as an expert if they stop studying. An expert is the one who concern in the subject and make it as the most habitual activity to do. A lawyer can be the more professional if they had been solved judicial court in various cases. He will find many ways to defend an argument to safe the interest of client. Study every time, even not in the class. It is also done by an auditor which the accounting standard always change dynamically. The circumstance of professional will always teach the idea of continuous learning in their activities.

Study is a limitless definition. It is not only about sit in the class, hear the lecture, and go home by bringing compulsory task for another week to be collected. Sometimes the economic student who actively go to class and hear the lesson from lecture cannot argue about solving economic problem in his/her country unless the student read newspaper or watching television news channel.  Surely being an updater who learn continuously is the most important.

Unfortunately, there is such a problem when a student in the university restrict the definition of study just reading an old book which created by the old international expertise. Scrutinize the lecturer and make it an only source of knowledge will be misleading. As an example above, as an accounting student who life in economics and business faculty, I just really understand how the case exist around the student. It such an easy example to be understood the recent condition that people begin to neglect continuous learning.

As an accounting student, I also find the similar problem. Instead I am one of the example, an updateless student who don’t know if new accounting standard was ratificated and another standard was amended. Surely I and recent accounting student face the problems, though actually it is not a real problem in digital era whom we can instantly click the website of Institute of Indonesia Chartered Accountants for keeping update about new standard. I can explicitly say how those professional who directly fall in the field and find new various thing to be learned can be called as the real student than academician in the university which basically stagnant in old theory.

Surely it’s wrong for me to make an instant conclusion that academician have the minimal continuous learning than professional. It only for being a lash to everyone in university not to stop learning. Sometimes the idea of continuous learning which pushed by faculty members to student is keep updating by reading an international journal so we can know what happen recently to the world. I am sure it is good but I cannot deny reading local newspaper and stay contact with national news TV channel can be a good way to really update about what happens to our surroundings and learn from them how to do something, how to avoid something, and how to know and think hard to solve another things.

However sometimes a professional expert also cannot be the real example a continuous learning figure. An old auditor who think they have been a legend can be eroded if they still do not understand the new system of auditing in digital era. I heard much from one of my lecture that the financial report of client was judged as unqualified opinion for many times by the previous auditor, but it can be an adverse opinion after another auditor who understand about IT based system can disclose the existence of fraud by the right of access to delete audit trace by some of officer. It is a leak, and an old auditor who does not learn about IT based system business model recently can be eroded wholeheartedly.

Those an expert are the one who will always have vigorous continuous learning in their life. They will always learn every day about what happen in their surroundings so they can adjust to every new zone in this life. Being welcome to new circumstance by learning it continuously can make someone will never make our basic knowledge in vain. Maybe this is my glance hypothesis to call unemployed bachelor in a developing country is the one who does not do continuous learning in their life, they just pride with the title in their Bachelor’s Certificate.

This article does not mean any blame to one side, just really figuring out. It remind me how I try to describe what happened in my surrounding is really my own problem. So captivating to get excellent score in all my financial accounting subject class, but I left behind to know a new standard has come in and must push me adjusting my old knowledge by new dynamic rapid changing.


The Updater,
S.

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