Androgogy, on the other hand, puts the emphasis and the responsibility on the learner himself. Adults don’t have to learn; they choose to learn. This active choosing and the motivation behind it serve to focus our attention and thereby make learning easier. As it was expressed by Malcolm Knowles in his seminal book The Adult Learner, “If we know why we are learning and if the reason fits our needs as we perceive them, we will learn quickly and deeply.”4
