Talking about learning, I remember what Father Managamtua Simbolon, S.J. said two years ago in Seminari Mertoyudan: “Kalian harus menghidupi spiritualitas pantat. Betah duduk berjam-jam untuk menulis dan membaca.” He told us to live our study well in Seminary, while we often tried to do something else in our study time instead of studying: eating, talking, even playing some game with other friends. We have certain studying time there, called studi I and studi II. Studi I starts from 5.30 pm till 7 pm; we have to spend our time in our class sitting on each of our seats there, studying. No sleep, no game, no talk. Meanwhile, studi II starts from 8 pm till 9.30 pm. We are allowed to gather with our friends and talk together everywhere. However, we’re allowed to do them in order to have a discussion in our study, not to have some fun. That schedule goes every day, making a certain habit of studying in our life: to read, to write, and to discuss.
Studying is a habit, so is learning. It starts as an attitude, happens every day, and becomes a habit as a human being. As an attitude, learning happens in two ways: natural way and conditional way. In natural way, learning starts from our birth day; it starts biologically in our brain as a living creature with our ratio as a human. We learn how to eat, how to speak, how to walk, and so on. In conditional way, learning starts in our social life. We learn how to talk, how to study, how to understand fields of studies in our class, and so on. Both of them start as an attitude, happen all the time, and become our habit as a human being.
It’s a habituation.
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