The Adult Learner

Malcolm S. Knowles, Elwood F. Holton III, Richard A. Swanson

Adults don't learn the way children do, but most training is still built on a child-learning model. This foundational text lays out exactly how adult learners are different.

The foundational text on andragogy — the theory of adult learning — arguing that adults learn fundamentally differently from children, as self-directed, experience-rich, problem-centered learners motivated more internally than externally.