text: According to psychologist Erik Erickson, students need social interaction to properly develop. Erickson developed a model that discusses the cognition and life goal of humans at different stages. From birth to death the underlying factor is social interaction as you chase morality, understanding your role, love, and generativity. Social interaction is especially crucial during the adolescence period (ages 11 to 20); the main focus of this period is finding your niche in the world, and becoming comfortable within yourself. Adolescents accomplish their goal by meeting, talking to, and hanging around different people groups. Physical classrooms allow students to do this effortlessly; especially in middle and high school classrooms where students are given multiple classes with different people every day. This mechanism paired with the teaching styles briefly discussed earlier aids tremendously in the development of adolescents. While students are finding their role, they're also looking to build relationships with others. Distance learning makes relationship building hard, as there is no physical interaction. Students aren't able to read facial expression or make meaningful memories, because everything is online. Without strong relationships, students easily fall into feelings of loneliness and depression and experience a decreases in self esteem.