Hello welcome to another episode of the smart student podcast. Once again I’m your host Dr. Ehoneah Obed.



In today’s episode, I am going to talk to you about a particular learning philosophy that I have used for a very long time. 



This learning philosophy is what I have called learning by teaching. So this is a philosophy that I have seen a number of excellent or smart students use to succeed.



Personally, I have used it all the way through my education. I can look back to my days in primary school when I was even using this not knowing how powerful it is. 



Today I’m going to walk you through what it is and how you can use it in your own studies. 



As you know this is the smart student podcast and on this show I train you to become a smart student.



So learning by teaching is one philosophy that every smart student needs to apply. 



Back in senior high school or even at the university level, I realised that almost all the very good students were students who were found teaching others or they were students who other people always engaged to be taught by them.



If you can bear with me, almost every brilliant student in your class right now has some other people looking up to them to teach them.



So that is the philosophy of learning to teach. Before I talk more about it, let me share an experience where I realise the importance of this particular philosophy that I have been using. 



When I was in senior high school, when we vacated I used to go back home. The thing is that I stayed in a different place from where I schooled. 



I had to travel to where I schooled and that is more in ” a town” so I have to go back to the village where I’m coming from. 



The unfortunate thing is that, on vacation I didn’t get anyone to take me through this source of vacation training. 



You know in the cities in Ghana we have a lot of vacation training going on and people are ready to pay and go. 



A lot of my colleagues in that same school were attending some of these vacation classes. 



However, unfortunately for me I didn’t get to attend any of them. Even when you had the money and you needed someone to teach you no one was available to teach you. 



We will come back to school and all these other colleagues of mine have gone to learn new things from their vacation classes and they are coming to show off and the likes. 



So, in my mind I’m like how do I get to learn some of these things that they have gotten the opportunity to learn because they went for classes. 



That is how all began. But, eventually I realised that even some of these people had gone for classes they still did not understand or appreciate some of the things that they’ve been taught in school. 



So eventually they came back to me. God been so good I was one of the  smart students in the class.



They will come back to me to help them understand some of the things that they have done during their vacation classes.



With time I picked up and what I started doing was that, when we come back to school I will 



make sure to find out what they have learnt during their vacation classes then I start learning them. 



Then anytime anybody came to me that they wanted me to help them understand certain things or they wanted me to teach them certain...