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        "msgid": "the-pareto-technique-the-secret-behind-gontors-rapid-learning-success-1782467542",
        "date": "2026-06-26 15:52:36",
        "title": "The Pareto Technique: The Secret Behind Gontor's Rapid Learning Success",
        "author": "Erdy Nasrul",
        "source": "REPUBLIKA",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Education",
        "summary": "This article explores the application of the Pareto principle in education, contrasting modern demands for efficient, practical learning with the traditional, process-oriented methods of Islamic boarding schools like Gontor. It examines the philosophical debate between achieving quick results and the deeper value of classical approaches, which emphasise patience, spiritual connection, and intellectual lineage. The piece also notes that efforts to simplify learning, such as the standardisation of the Qur'an, have historical precedents within Islamic scholarship.",
        "content": "<p>In the modern era, \u2018effective\u2019 and \u2018efficient\u2019 have become new\nmantras in the world of education. Nearly every course brochure offers\nsimilar promises: fast, practical, and hassle-free. Even claims that\nsound too good to be true, like \u2018mastering Arabic overnight\u2019, are not\nuncommon. On one hand, people are increasingly required to move quickly.\nParents want their children to learn fast. Students desire instant\nresults. The professional world also values practical skills more than\nlengthy processes whose outcomes are not immediately visible. This has\nsubsequently rolled through lay society and sparked a sensitive question\nwithin the tradition of Arabic language teaching: \u2018If the ultimate goal\nis to understand Arabic, why do many pesantren require their students to\nmemorise thousands of lines of poetry first? Why not use a more\npractical method?\u2019 This question sounds simple, but it actually touches\non a long-standing debate about the philosophy of learning: should\neducation emphasise depth of process or effectiveness of results?\nInterestingly, the pesantren world has its own varied answers. Some\ncircles maintain classical methods because memorising nadzam is not\nmerely a tool for understanding knowledge. It is part of an Islamic\nscholarly tradition preserved for centuries. Within it lie lessons in\npatience, perseverance, and proper conduct towards scholars, as well as\nthe connection of intellectual chains of transmission that cannot be\nmeasured simply by the logic of \u2018quick comprehension\u2019. In this\ntradition, futuh, or the opening of understanding, is often believed to\nbe not solely the result of intelligence or the effectiveness of a\nlearning method. It is born from a combination of outward mujahadah,\nthrough serious effort in attending study circles, understanding, and\nmemorising, and inward mujahadah, through the blessing of the spiritual\nrelationship between student, teacher, and the knowledge being studied.\nHowever, another perspective sees that learning methods do indeed evolve\naccording to the needs of the times. The focus is no longer on how many\ntexts are memorised, but on how quickly knowledge can be understood and\nthen applied in real life. In fact, within Islamic history itself,\nefforts to simplify learning have long existed. The arrangement of the\nQur\u2019an into 20 pages per juz, the addition of diacritical marks, and the\ncodification of Makkiyah and Madaniyah verses are all forms of endeavour\nto make knowledge easier for the ummah to understand.<\/p>",
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