There are several importance to the transfer of learning. It is very useful and important in the field of education. Also, such teaching-learning methods are used in which new knowledge and skills are developed. The importance can be listed in:
1) A teacher should give maximum opportunities to the students to use their general intelligence at the time of teaching-learning. It would develop general ability in them.
2) A teacher should motivate students to use their previously acquired knowledge and skills in acquiring the knowledge and skills being taught to them.
3) A teacher should develop the attitude of application of the knowledge and skills acquired previously in the students.
4) A teacher should develop proper ideals and values in the students, which provide stability to human behavior.
5) A teacher should provide opportunities to the students for generalization. The transfer occurs of this generalized knowledge and skill.
The importance of this is very vital for the teachers to understand. Cause they are the ones who the roots for the transfer of any kind of knowledge or skills we learn.