Education is a continuous process and thrust for knowledge is everlasting. Adult education is a controversial issue and some groups of thoughts argue that adults can learn things by themselves and the common mentoring technique in the school is unnecessary for them. Even though classroom learning has its own advantages, I believe the self-study is more beneficial for adults.
Obviously, ‘internal motivation and hard working’ is the core in all success stories. Therefore a highly motivated person can learn alone by utilising the advanced technologies. For illustration, online education is a newer trend and even someone working can attend certification course through the Internet. In addition, most of the companies are offering continuing education as part of their working schedules. So workers can improve their knowledge by this without attending regular classroom courses. Furthermore, for an adult, it is cumbersome to get back to a student life in most of the cases. The advancement in technology has made it possible to learn from home and adults do not need teachers to look after their behaviours or discipline them to study. It is a well-known fact that self-learning is the best learning and this is quite applicable for grown up people. So supporters of this view believe that for grown up people classroom learning is unnecessary and a waste of time.
On the other hand, some people believe that education is meaningful only by regular classroom mentoring. Self-motivation is sometimes ineffective and necessitates the teachers for evaluating and guiding them. Moreover, they believe that adult life is different from children because of the internal as well as the external factors affecting their learning process. For instance, adult life is complicated with a lot of responsibilities and tensions. Therefore continuous motivation by an external mentor is inevitable. Online education programs and other continuing career development programs often lack this opportunity and hence this group of people believes that classroom education is the best option for adults.
Put everything into consideration both these methods have their own advantages. However, I think that a highly motivated individual can gain knowledge by self-learning and for such adults, self-learning is a far better choice than attending formal educational institutes.
Education
is a continuous process and thrust for knowledge is everlasting. Adult
education
is a controversial issue and
some
groups of thoughts argue that
adults
can learn things by themselves and the common mentoring technique in the school is unnecessary for them.
Even though
classroom
learning
has its
own
advantages, I
believe
the self-study is more beneficial for adults.
Obviously
, ‘internal motivation and
hard working
’ is the core in all success stories.
Therefore
a
highly
motivated person can learn alone by
utilising
the advanced technologies. For illustration, online
education
is a newer trend and even someone
working
can attend certification course through the Internet.
In addition
, most of the
companies
are offering continuing
education
as part of their working schedules.
So
workers can
improve
their knowledge by this without attending regular classroom courses.
Furthermore
, for an adult, it is cumbersome to
get
back to a student life in most of the cases. The advancement in technology has made it possible to learn from home and
adults
do not need teachers to look after their
behaviours
or discipline them to study.
It is a well-known fact that
self-learning is the best
learning
and this is quite applicable for grown up
people
.
So
supporters of this view
believe
that for grown up
people
classroom
learning
is unnecessary and a waste of time.
On the other hand
,
some
people
believe
that
education
is meaningful
only
by regular classroom mentoring. Self-motivation is
sometimes
ineffective and necessitates the teachers for evaluating and guiding them.
Moreover
, they
believe
that adult life is
different
from children
because
of the internal
as well
as the external factors affecting their
learning
process.
For instance
, adult life
is complicated
with
a lot of
responsibilities and tensions.
Therefore
continuous motivation by an external mentor is inevitable. Online
education
programs and other continuing career development programs
often
lack this opportunity and
hence
this group of
people
believes
that classroom
education
is the best option for adults.
Put everything into consideration both these methods have their
own
advantages.
However
, I
think
that a
highly
motivated individual can gain knowledge by self-learning and for such
adults
, self-learning is a far better choice than attending formal educational institutes.