In most countries the following questions are very frequently asked: how can our country become a knowledge - based economy, what requirements are needed to meet to establish a knowledge based society, how can we form our culture that it should support the new behaviour? There are basic elements of national, organisational and personal culture, such as study skills and the willingness to study, methods of knowledge acquisition (for example literacy), childhood curiosity (for example which can be satisfied by the sample behaviour of adults), youthful pursuit of knowledge experience gained in the course of work. One of the critical elements of knowledge acquisition is how and from whom we can receive it. The other critical question is how we can share our knowledge with other people, how it should become a common value to improve the memory of organisations and nations. The features of this behaviour can be observed from childhood but these are going to change depending on the characteristics of the environment and age. In our research the emphasis was put on the age characteristics that influence our studying habits and sources of our knowledge acquisition from childhood to adulthood. The aim of this international research is to explore factors that can help and/or obstruct the process of knowledge sharing which should become daily routine from imitation - based studying to knowledge-based society. © Common Ground, Andrea Bencsik.