The Importance of Interest in Learning

The two basic principles of learning anything are interest and participation. A man who repeats an act again and again with his mind only half of what he is doing will learn it neither quickly nor well. Interest can be secured in a variety of ways, including close contact between instructor and every soldier. Lectures are used only when preliminary explanation at some length is needed or when men cannot be put through the work itself. The relation of the learning to the problems of combat must always be stressed.