THE DISCIPLINE OF STUDY
Developing Effective Habits for Learning and Transformation
Most students do not fail for lack of intelligence. They fail because no one ever taught them how to study.
You can read for hours and know nothing the next morning. Most students have lived that night. Few have ever been shown why it happens, or what to do instead.
The Discipline of Study is Book Three in The Gospel Education Foundation Learning Series for Academic Success. It is a complete guide to the practices that sustained learning requires, written for the serious secondary school student, the university student, and the teacher or mentor who guides them.
Prince Nnanna begins with his own failed examination: a night of cramming, a blank mind in the examination hall, and eighteen marks out of seventy in the one subject he had studied hardest. From that failure he builds a method, drawing on the findings of learning science, the Hebrew and Greek of the King James Bible, and years of teaching.
Inside you will learn:
• Why study must be governed, and how to govern yours
• The Study Cycle: twelve steps from intention to transformation
• How to read, take notes, and build memory that lasts
• Active study, deliberate practice, and testing yourself as diagnosis
• How to diagnose a failed examination and begin again
• How to build a personal study system and run a thirty-day reset
• Study plans for different seasons of life, and a guide for mentors
Every chapter opens with a verse from the King James Bible, closes with three Reflection and Response questions, and gives you a named tool you can use the day you read it, from the Seven Pillars self-audit to the Evening Account and the Sixty-Minute Study Session.