The challenges of being an adult learner is very rewarding to me. Because adult learning is based on using experience I am fully equipped. I have 25 years of experience as a school teacher and I can use my own trials and errors.
The joys of being a learner at my age is that I understand what is being taught. I have related some of my learning in my classroom when I am teaching. I have been able to connect, associate and apply the knowledge in my own teachings.
My hope for the next generation as a learner is that they acquire some experience in the job force, in society, basically in life. Without experience, new knowledge at a late age with nothing to connect to, is davastating. This could actually be considered new knowledge that should have been learned earlier in life. So would you consider that being be behind? Life is a timeline and age cannot be repeated. If you start late you won't have that much time to put in. The way things run in this society for example; social security starts at a certain age, you have to have so much experience in to be accounted for. The same as an adult learner you have to have so much experience in order to relate to the topics
My advice for people who are entering my decade as a learner. You have acquired much experience through your lifetime. The experiences you have gone through may help someone in many ways. Your experience helps to define causes, reasons, and the grounds for many things that exist. Through your experiences, others will be accounted for and perhaps have had the same experiences as you. Therefore statistics would be gathered and solutions, resolutions and answers maybe discovered. Learning never stops. Your thoughts and new experiences may add to the study of mankind.
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