Traditional vs. Nontraditional Learning

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age? (Erich Fromm) Without continual growth and progress, then improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Success requires hard work, dedication, and the determination to self-satisfy the need to become the best individual anyone could be. While direct and indirect learning are seen as effective solutions to gaining higher education, they differ in social interaction, hands-on learning, and organized scheduling. Many online and traditional students still work as professionals with full-time jobs. They’re parents with the responsibility of taking care of a family, live in the country or isolated counties, or happen to be retirees attempting to further their education or aspiring students who simply cannot afford to make the transition to attend college classes on campus so the online setting is the closest form of traditional education virtually possible for them to pursue a higher form of education. To make this determination, it is important to first evaluate whether or not patience, means and ability to pursue a degree of choice from a traditional institution as opposed to an online setting is possible. The computer-generated classroom is a key contributor to the educational community, causing establishments to begin practicing the same online prototypical as a form of training technical specialists in both private and public universities. Online students must possess the qualities to remain focused and self-motivated without the typical person-to-person interaction with classmates or instructors. However, an online learner as well as traditional learners must possess unique characteristics needed to excel outside of a traditional setting and inside the classroom. Social interactions are considered more of a sense of inaccessibility that online learning may promote among learners. For an online setting, social