Adults bring to the classroom setting a lifetime of experience that should be mutually shared. Sharing experiences makes the content of the class practical and relevant to daily living. This ensures that the content of your instruction includes life-coping skills and it stimulates the motivation of the adult students. Adult students for the most part are highly motivated. They attend class of their own free choice usually at some personal and financial sacrifice.
Occasional absences are due more to family obligations rather than a lack of motivation.
Adult students usually have very specific and immediate goals. They lack the uninhibited enthusiasm of small children. The undereducated adults, in particular, are convinced that they cannot learn or are too old to learn .