Reprinted from Training magazine, June 1995 and 1981
However you care to define it, learning is as natural to human beings as breathing, eating, sleeping, playing, or procreating. And as far as anyone can tell, we maintain that natural capacity as long as any of the others. For the last century and a half or so, educators and psychologists have tried to develop ways to deliver instruction, practice, and experience that enhance this innate capacity to learn.
For the last 20 to 75 years, depending on who’s doing the counting, an evolving school of thought has defined adult learners (as opposted to children, adolescents, college sophomores, and lab rats) as a unique subgroup in need of specialized study, theory, and educational practices.
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