draft notes to the student

Seek a good teacher. For several reasons. Self-study is only good up to a point, beyond which, an experienced mentor is required to dispell confusion and misunderstandings, as well as to advise on the proper curricular course. Otherwise much time can be wasted, understanding mangled, and learning not achieved. There is no substitute in learning for the experience of the expert teacher. In the Yi Jing it is written , "Whoever hunts deer without the forester. Only loses his way in the forest." (Hexagram 3 屯 Chun , Difficulty at the beginning, Difficulties). The good teacher crucially protects from being exposed to matters for which the student is not ready. Exposure to some subjects without proper preparation risks losing first impressions to misconceptions or other barriers to comprehension, necessitating a laborious repair.

texts,understanding: sometimes it matters more to go through the text even without understanding it, than to go through it only with a full understanding. Understanding also improves with repeated reading of the passage. Here the case is
where a higher value is placed on developing a familiarity with a given topic,
rather than fully assimilating its every aspect in text.

it helps a process of reinforcement when reading is repeated later with new information

sometimes, by itself, without added information, understanding seeps in with time.

rote: repeated reading helps learning by rote (by heart, 7ifzh).

Anecdote says that the tax of learning is teaching it. Igws that good science should be shared. The sharing and imparting of truth is of general benefit.

text,understanding: repeated reading helps understanding a great deal. Revisiting a book after some time with or without accumulating new knowledge sheds new light on the subject.

problems: "if you cannot solve the problems in the text you've studied then you've learned nothing." <- wish i could remember where i saw that. Problems are a key ingredient in physics and math texts and many of them present new theorems corollaries , applications etc.

The student should fulfill one's end of the pact with God. The pact is by default already there, built-in, and always redeemable on the part of God.

texts,pedagogy: on a given subject, the texts and discourse from different academic cultures (countries) offer different perspectives. For example compare the standard description of the Pauli exclusion principle common in English textbooks, with its counterpart in the Russian ones. As another example compare the kinds of problems presented in curricula for college-level Calculus I and those found in American textbooks and presentations.

Thus while a subject like physics is the same enabling germans and others to develop quantum mechanics that agree with formalisms developed by englishmen, there are still important differences in pedagogic approaches and in the explanations and descriptions given of the same phenomena.

God provides insight, understanding, discoveries , new directions or things that suddenly come into view, and is the provider of all the tools and aspects of learning. He enjoins and accepts supplications petitions and requests , and such we should turn to him for advancemnt utility and benefit in one's science.

texts: In some cases, looking up references in unknown languages (even in unknown writing systems) can offer non textual information such as formulas in standard latin notation that would be missing from other familiar texts, or in diagrams, schemas, and other visual or nontextual information, particularly with video or other graphic media.

problems: visualize the problem [Tipler]; analyze problems geometrically [Mandelbrot].

study,environment,discipline: scholarship is greatly served by a healthy physical regimen in sport and nutrition. in the few times that system was on , studying was a lot better.

from Zosimos who also recommends nighttime work: celibacy. The lack of it may have an adverse effect on intellectual spiritual and magickal power and prowess.

study: study work and mental focus is of a better quality at night time. a reversal of one's biological clock is unhealthy however . A workaround is to wake exceedingly early , and to redistribute sleep to two sections earlier on in the evening. Thus sleep a little after dusk and wake up around three in the morning , or between that and four; a good third of the night before dawn, the last third. It is during this time that both spiritual and scholarly work are most amenable. Particularly spiritual. As the scholarly work can then extend into early morning. Indeed as many would agree, early morning study is the best in terms of quality and clarity. This , coupled with quick review before sleep in the evening , would assure hasty arrival at the student's goal.