ple, adult learners have a large reservoir of life experiences to bring to and support new learning.
5. Adult learners flourish when their abilities and life achievements acknowledged and respected.
6. Adult learners prefer a practical and immediately relevant approach.
7. Adults learn readily from their peers, far more easily than children or adolescents.
8. Adult learners have a well developed and dominate learning style and, unlike children, they know what it is.
9. Adult learners want immediate and regular feedback.
10. Adult learners are learners who are ready to learn and often approach learning from a "need to know" mentality.
11. Adult learners tend to require far more "unlearning" than child or adolescent learners.
Knowles, Holton and Swanson (1998) also state that the foregoing unique characteristics of adult learners, according to basic adult learning theory, means that they need a different learning atmosphere and often dif
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