Our professor asked us what is the image that represents our philosophy of adult education? How do you see that image related to your philosophy?
The image that comes to mind for me is the old, grizzled, calloused-handed, denim-faded, field supervisor who graduated high school and has never thought about formal continuing or adult education who sits down to take a computer-based course or instructor-led course that we have created at our organization and being inspired enough to find intrinsic motivation to want to learn more and even use what he has learned to teach the rest of his team something he learned while at our campus.
Lindeman (2018) writes, "the real distinction between educated and uneducated persons is not to be found in such superficial criteria as academic degrees, formal study or accumulation of facts; indeed, formal learning may and often does, lead people into narrow scholarship and out of life . . . knowledge, rather, emerges from experience. intelligence is the light which reveals educational opportunities in experience" (p. 170).
This quote made me think of the thousands and thousands of workers that we support who when asked always say that they want more training opportunities, but when provided staid, boring, uninspired CBTs realize that they are not being given the opportunity that they expect or deserve, and that crushes his intrinsic motivation to learn.
References
Lindeman, E. (2018). The meaning of adult education. Franklin Classics.
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