summary no.5_Siti Nurohmah

5. Adults have some advantage on education. Adult learners often know exactly what they need to learn. Because they have experience of life, they know what knowledge will be useful to them and what will not. If they cannot read or write, they have experienced the problems caused by illiteracy. If they cannot do their job well, they have experienced the loss of income or of job opportunities caused by lack of vocational training. Adults have usually accumulated a wealth of experience of life in general that can help them in learning. They have more practical, everyday experiences that help them understand what they learn in school.

Feng Lian, for example, is a textile plant supervisor in Shanghai, China. She graduated from secondary school, but she didn’t learn much in school about electricity and how it is used in factories. Now she must supervise the electrical system in the factory, and she has to know a lot about electrical transmission systems. She is going to night class that will teach her what she needs to know. She already has many questions about the subject and is ready and eager to learn. If she does succeed in her night class, she can get an even better job.

Michael Johnson owns a small construction business in California. Like many other U.S citizens, he did not really learn to read and write in school and dropped out of school when he was fourteen years old. Michael was smart, and he was good at building things and at using machines. He was very successful as a construction worker and eventually started his own business. His wife helped him read and write what he needed, and he learned how to hide his inability from others. Finally, at the age of thirty-eight, Michael is going back to school to a special program to learn how to read and write. He is learning very quickly, partly because he is smart and partly because he knows how important reading and writing are to his work.

Summary

There are some advantages that are had by adults on education. Those are they really know what they need to learn because they have more life experiences, and they can more understand what they learn in school by practicing more. For examples, Feng Lian who is a textile plant supervisor in Shanghai and only graduated from secondary school, takes night class to get a lot about electrical transmission systems to get better job later and Michael Johnson who owns a small construction business in California and dropped out of school in fourteen years old, takes a special program to learn how to read and write because they are very important in his work.