Mastering the art of effective listening key to learning outcomes

Students from Milimani High School in Naivasha follow proceedings after teachers resumed classes after one month. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]

A professor I was working under many moons ago once told me that listening is arguably the hardest skill ever. That a whole legion of us have poor listening skills, or lack in it entirely. We love the sound of our voices more instead. He quipped that active, effective listening alone could fix more than half the problems we face as humanity (of course he didn’t quote any authority).

But you catch the drift, no?