What is andragogy & why you can’t learn new things as you used before as a kid?

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In short, andragogy focuses on how adults learn vs pedagogy who deals with the study of children’s learning.
It emerged as a solution to developing better learning practices for adults because they learn differently from children.

This teaching method is based on a few central ideas:
Adults want to be fully involved in the learning process & they tend to learn from experience/failure (trial and error) rather than acquiring new content just to learn stuff and waste valuable time.
And ultimately adults want to know if that information is useful in real life or not.

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When you are an adult, you realize that time is very valuable and you don’t want to waste it acquiring useless information that you won’t need in your daily life, if won’t help you solve the problems you face in real life then that information is not appealing.

You have to trick the brain that information is important so that the learning process will be more smooth and so that no time is wasted on learning and no frustration sets in.
In short, you have to…