Journal 98 – Preparing for lifelong learning

Lifelong learning is a common idea in the contemporary world. In this area, schools play a very important role. They provide alumnus with particular skills, general knowledge and motivation.
First of all, a very important key play particular skills. The basic of them are: reading and writing; the more complicated is ability to find variety points of view in different sources. At present, the Internet is the biggest library in the world.
Second of all, each high school alumni should have motivation to enrich her or his knowledge and improve skills. It can be in general or professional area. Motivation is as an engine, which gives us stimulus and energy to do something. Simplify, we can say about two major kinds of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic. The first is more valuable than second one. At all, it is a problem how to motivate students to learn, especially for whole their lives. It is very important and complicated.
Finally, the educators discovered correlation between the level of education and motivation to lifelong learning. The general regularity says: when the level of education increases, needs for lifelong learning raise proportionally.
All three basic components discussed above, which make possible lifelong learning, can be topics for separate journals.