Invent and Learn - The Ultimate Technique of Teaching as well as Learning!
Authors: Krishna Gopal 
Published: April 2024

The author proposes a new teaching technique – the "Invent and Learn" technique - in this paper which is the ultimate technique of teaching as well as learning because, in this technique, the teacher gives the minimum needed help to make the students invent a new concept, law, theorem or formula in all academic subjects and also to make them invent as many “questions and application problems and their answers and solutions to the extent they can manage on their own” as possible based on the new concept, law, theorem or formula they learn in combination with all the concepts, laws, theorems and formulas already learnt by them earlier to exercise their thinking faculty very well and also for class discussions of all these questions and application problems.The author proposes the complete use of the “Invent and Learn” technique from class 3 to class 12 in all primary and high schools and the partial use of this technique in all colleges and universities as much as practically possible all over the world. The author further proposes that the teacher follow the “3-Day Rule” from class 3 to class 12 in all primary and high schools in which every student is given 3 days of that subject's class time apart from the time available at home to invent a new concept, law, theorem or formula with the minimum needed help from the teacher and on the 4th day of the class of that subject, the teacher should give his/her answer in the class if any student is unable to invent it on his/her own. The same “3-Day Rule” should also be followed from class 3 to class 12 in all primary and high schools for inventing as many “questions and application problems and their answers and solutions to the extent they can manage on their own” as possible by the students for every new concept, law, theorem or formula they learn in combination with all the concepts, laws, theorems and formulas already learnt by them earlier.The “3-Day Rule” will ensure a very high exercise of thinking faculty by the students in primary and high schools which they will enjoy a lot, provided - (i) no grading is done on the class performance to keep the "Invent and Learn" technique purely a fun learning process, and (ii) there should be only 40-minute duration for every period from class 3 to class 5 and only 50-minute duration for every period from class 6 to class 12 followed by a 20-minute break for rest, relaxation, fun/recreation, physical movements and social interactions in which mobile should also be allowed for fun purpose so that after the intense thinking involved in using the “Invent and Learn” technique in a period, all students have adequate rest and relaxation. Thus, the "Invent and Learn" technique will develop the students’ self-confidence, curiosity, imagination, questioning spirit, openness and ability to freely and boldly think in all possible directions and from all possible angles, scientific temper, rationality, sincerity, hard work, tenacity, patience and sense of fun while doing the creative efforts and also during break from these efforts for rest and relaxation – which are all the fundamental qualities of mind needed to have a very high level of creativity in every field - to the highest possible level.The author further differentiates between abstract intelligence and concrete intelligence and shows how concrete intelligence is built on the foundation of abstract intelligence and how the "Invent and Learn" technique develops the abstract intelligence and, hence, the concrete intelligence of the students to the highest possible level. The author gives the examples of the "Natural Numbers" and the "Whole Numbers" topics as an application of the "Invent and Learn" technique in this paper to show how it can be implemented in classrooms. The author further talks about how discovering ethical principles using the “Invent and Learn” technique in the classroom by all students is highly likely to lead to an actual commitment by them to following them citing his own example as proof.The author also gives various arguments in details to prove that despite being time-intensive, the “Invent and Learn” technique will not require any curtailing of the syllabus from class 3 to class 12 as a whole by avoiding the repetition of any concept, law, theorem or formula due to the deeper encoding of the memory and the clarity of the logical understanding of everything.The author, further, requests various nations of the world to work under a global committee to formulate and regularly revise syllabus from class 3 to class 12 for all objective subjects like Mathematics, Science, English Grammar, etc. to hire the best global subject experts and to avoid the duplication of the efforts to save time and money and also to bring the whole humanity under the “Invent and Learn” technique to promote the highest possible quality of education and “one human family” vision all over the world.