I cannot teach anyone anything; I can only HELP them to Learn something--maybe.   I can try to be an Enabler.

To really Learn requires full participation by the Learner: "One can lead a horse to water, but can't make him do the backstroke."

Also, and more importantly, Learning is NOT a linear process. No one learns in a straight line, logically or sequentially. I have only met one person who claimed to learn in a linear fashion; "he is feeling much better now," and will be released next September.

You don't work a puzzle from the upper left-hand corner only. You work all of the pieces and parts of the puzzle that make sense to you at the time. If you did start at only one place and work linearly, as soon as you got to where the 'missing piece' was supposed to go, you are stopped dead in the water; never to move on. --That is, until the Wee People see fit to return the missing puzzle piece.

I liken Learning to taking the family to a Walt Disney movie (made by Walt himself, not this other crap); everyone, the young kids, the teenagers, and the adults, all get something from the movie--each is different, and the same. The young kids are entertained by what entertains young kids; same for the teenagers and the adults: that is to say, there is something there for everybody.

Likewise, learning is the accumulation of bits and pieces of knowledge and information; for everyone these can be different: it is the accumulation that is important.

Often the "Aha's" come much later, but they come.

In more formal learning situations, one is discouraged from "reading ahead of the class,"  it is as though, if you are exposed to something--out of order--that you don't completely understand, it is harmful: what a crock!

Exposure is a large part of the learning process--that and TIME. Then come the "Aha's."

Oh yea, there is the absolutely most important required ingredient: Curiosity! Without Curiosity you may as well close the book and take up Taxidermy.

When I started out learning this stuff, years ago, I learned a lot just by reading the ads in electronics magazines. Trying to read and understand the articles also helped--though oftentimes daunting. 

Finally, Don't judge yourself against others (you really don't know what they actually know--their claims are more often bogus); judge yourself against what YOU knew when you started out. A year from now: it will blow your mind how far you have come.

Oh, yea: Have FUN while you are Learning. FUN is the most underrated and least appreciated part of Learning!!

OK, I feel better now; lets get to it...

Oh, by the way, I will be PRESENTING the following in as Linear/Sequential way as I possibly can.

gaw 
 

The bulb would now be powered at 6 volts: the remaining 6 volts (of the 12 volt battery), would be "Dropped" across the Resistor.

Using this method of voltage reduction, the Resistor would consume energy; in point of fact, the amount would be exactly the same as consumed by the bulb. The energy consumed by the Resistor would be in the form of Heat, and would be considered wasted..