This was a nice review of some things. 

It is important to create confident in the students, they need to know they can create effective solutions to different problems. That, they can adapt to situations that need different solutions. They need to know they are capable to reach their goals. 

It is important to have common sense, to have listening skills, to value others and to have emotional intelligence. It is essential for the instructor to guide students to utilize their  thinking skills and emotions to understand situations and create solutions. After that, to evaluate their interventions and keep creating interventions until reaching the main goal. 

Discipline is an important concept in learning and critical thinking, I agree the students need to learn to do their part in learning. I apply interventions during my classes that encourage students to apply their own ideas and create solutions. 

I have learned that it is essential as a Professor to guide my students to become independent learners. It is important for them to continue learning, but the important part is to provide them with the tools to become life-long learners. During my classes I will teach them how to scan for essential information and how to absorb the knowledge and apply it later. 

What I have learned is for an adult learner to be successful it is important to teach the whole of the student not the pieces. Each aspect of an adult learner is different, so it is important to support each aspect to fully help develop the learner. Additionally incorporating various learning styles could enhance motivation of the adult learner.

Knowles listed five basic assumptions to describe adult learners: have aided in developing how adult's learner conceptualize content in their learning environment, the relevancy, and application of content. Adult learners don't just want to obtain content, they often ask "why" which can lead to an instructor researching information and providing thorough explanations to lifelong learners. Additionally, Rogers mention of self-directed learning identifies the role andragogy plays in the student directed learning for adult learners.

The varying viewpoints of each theorist are interesting. Havighurst perspective is relevant and relatable today as adults often compare themselves to others when it comes to education and success. 

The motivation for adult learners is different than that of non-adult learners so the strategies to empower their learning and retention has to be strategic.