Through the years passed, learning has developed a large scheme introducing changes in almost every spheres of education, making students the primary benefactor of these ever changing matters and transformations.

Seemingly, the differences between students then over students nowadays are really noticeable in terms of their learning aspects; how they learn and what they learn over time.

Nowadays, growing up children always seize the higher ideas of education asking the questions “Why Education?”, “What are its needs?” which are not parallel to the decades back. For instance, there was a Research Center found that, for 86 percent students born between 1976 and 2000, “getting rich” was the priority, while 81 percent of students in 1967 prioritized on having a “meaningful philosophy of life”.

This means, students then focus about their philosophies in life, where they should be cultivated in order to be considered as an “educated” person, more so, their parents would be proud of. On the other hand, students nowadays tend to study because they want to be “rich”. They are not after the philosophy; rather, they are after the future plans of their successful lives.

How they learn? There is what we call, “Self Learning” which emerged as one of the commonly preferable mode of education. Students then, have the struggle in learning through the use of books. They use books as their research material. This has proven over time that students then have different endeavour versus students nowadays.

Today, Technological revolution, or more precisely, Information and Communication Technology have facilitated learning through open internet sources. This has transformed learning as a process of gathering information. In recent times, websites such as YouTube, Wikipedia and other information sites are considered as sources of dependable information and learning material. This has become an easier task for the students to quest whatever information they needed in school.

As students are being acquainted and aware being educated and learned, there has been a continuing decrease in the average age at which a child is first admitted to a formal learning institution.

Earlier then, students are just enjoying their lives playing all throughout their day to day basis. Nowadays, as parents being educated, children now are already half-baked; they already knew how to read and write before starting their preliminary schooling.

The main fact is that, parents are now more concerned about what their children are learning rather than what they are enjoying.

Nowadays, children now no longer differentiate between playing and learning. This new trait of education and learning in children facilitated the series of rather surprising traits following throughout their later lives.

That is why, the development of aspect of learning changes over time, becoming the students more productive and effective. However, as what everyone always says, there is always room for improvement and progress. We should always cope up whatever change occurs. Whether good or bad effects, we are the one who can grasp everything, for what matters is only our vision to the ever future- complex lives.

By: Nathaniel Sebastian | Teacher |Academy of Queen Mary School Inc