has had a profound effect on learning needs and styles. Learning can no longer be divided into a place and time to
acquire knowledge (school) and a place and time to apply the knowledge acquired (the workplace). Instead, learning
can be seen as something that takes place on an on-going basis from our daily interactions with others and with the
world around us.” [3]
The staffs of the National Institute of Professional Education were trying to find out the answers to the questions
about lifelong education in their research The attitude of young people to education and their professional
employment (2003). They have concentrated on the young people of the age range of 20 to 29 years. “They have
supposed that just those people should have the biggest motivation for further education. The results of the research
show that the proclamations about lifelong education are permanently rather the plan into the future than the reality
of the present. An average young man devotes to his education no more than 12 hours a year. Such a low figure
results from the fact that about 78% of the people questioned do not educate themselves during their employment at
all. When calculating only the people who do take part in further education the resulting average is about a little
more than one hour a week. A tiny enthusiasm for further education is accompanied by even a lesser readiness to
contribute to educational courses from everyone's own pocket. Considerably more kinds of further education are
partly or completely paid by employers. As far as the contents it is most often a case of short courses referring to
safety up-work and of computer courses. Far less numerous are the long-standing language courses. Quite in
accordance to the expectations, especially the people with higher education get involved in further education. The
difference between them and the group with lower education is more and more extending. However, only less than a
half of a young population devotes to study even among the people with higher education. Willingness to continue
educating oneself is growing also in accordance with the rising income of an individual. However, the assumption
that the people who do not work in the field they had studied earlier get educated more, did not confirm.” [4]