People are social beings, and as such they need to share activities with the other people around them. At any age,
isolation can cause undesirable negative impact: irrational thoughts, disturbed behaviour, etc. When individuals get
older, this behaviour may increase as a result of events in their lives that can bring about this isolation: the death of
relatives, children becoming independent, friends who move away, etc. Other life events can cause radical changes
in their behaviour: taking care of an ill relative, their own illnesses, low life expectancy, etc.
Undertaking educational tasks and activities was seen by some learners as way of staying young, as learning was
interpreted as something that adolescents did for their future. Taking advantage of their time to learn was highly
valued from two points of view: firstly as a way of spending time usefully (not wasting time watching TV or as a
reason to get out of bed), and secondly as a way of increasing their curiosity.