Many young people cannot wait to leave high school – they think being grown-up means having unlimited freedom to never solve a math question again in their lives, or watch movies from dawn to dusk for about a year. And indeed, the freedom that comes with adulthood is one that is saddled with responsibilities. You can no longer hide behind your parents – “dad made me do this!” – when your decisions go south.
A few months into adulthood and learning the magnitude of what it means to be grown-up, some get lucky enough to know what they desire in life and chart their course towards achieving it. Others, well, just wing it till something gives. One area that remains very key to discovering and leading a purposeful life, however, is to continuously engage in the process of learning irrespective of what stage one is in life.
Comments on review websites like ReviewsBird.com and others show that a large percentage of adults engage in some form of educational activities in their adulthood, whether as part of the process to improve their career progression, get into a new field of endeavor, get a degree, or for the pure passion of learning.…