- Acquire a knowledge point or concept and try to absorb it.
- Retell what you have learned.
- Access the fluency of your reproduction. If you are influent, review the relevant knowledge.
- Simplify the knowledge with your own explanation. This is the famous “Feynman Learning Technique”.
The Feynman Technique can help you to assess your mastery extent of a knowledge point or a conception, and the best way of this is to teach others. If you can make others understand you with brief and clear teaching, you have totally mastered the point; if not, you need a further learning.
The Feynman Technique is also much beneficial for high school students. In daily learning, taking advantage of studying together, you can retell what you have learned to your classmates, and do not hesitate to help others to tackle a hard question. The teaching process is also a learning process. As an old saying goes: Two heads are always better than one. Learn with your classmates, you all can progress faster.
