text: Online courses are also excellent teachers of responsibility. In a traditional schooling environment, classes are very rigorously and rigidly structured, teaching in a very linear fashion that has been refined over the years through small adjustments. Students are responsible for ensuring they do what is required of them, but there is no real need to take charge of their own learning and think for themselves, as they are simply following in the footsteps of the students before them. An online learning environment on the other hand, allows students to learn how they work best, pushing them to think for themselves and forcing students to motivate themselves to work without outside guidance. This culture of learning is much more reminiscent of college and adult life, where there is little to no outside motivation to do what needs to be done.