Is teaching adults is different than teaching children?

Teaching adults is definitely very different from teaching children.  Children are eager to learn whatever the teacher is telling them despite its relevance to their live while adults needs to see a reason to learn something.  Children will take whatever the teacher says as true while an adult learner is more likely to question the validity of a claim. Children are also most often ready to learn whereas adults have to be ready in order to learn.  Adults learners also need to feel a sense of control over their learning whereas children would rather have their learning controlled for them. The one powerful thing that an adult learning has that a child does not is a wealth of experiences to pull from and to relate things too and a self determination to make themselves better.  Most of my teaching experience is with teenagers which are in between children and adults so they are kinda mix of both. My students want to see a relevance to something before they learn something like adults. Most of my students are ready to learn when they come to my class as long as they are not be distracted by any of the numerous things that tend to distract teenagers.  The older the students that I have are the more likely they are to want to have a sense of control whereas freshman usually just want to be told what to learn. The same is true of questioning the validity of a claim, freshman will take what you say as law where seniors not so much. These are also some of the same thing that I have seen in myself throughout my journey as a lifelong learner.  When I was a child I just wanted to learn about anything. As I got a little older I still wanted to learn but about things that interested me like science, space and music. Now I want to learn about things that interest me but I also have a self motivation to learn things that will help me advance my career like I am doing now. I am going to question the validity of a claim if I feel it is invalid and I like to have control over my learning.  I also know that have have to be ready to learn in order to learn and luckily today I can honestly say I am ready to learn.