Plans for Adult Education.

It is because of the increasing complexity of social relations, national and international, that adult education is beginning to loom large in the future plans of the progressive nations of the world. The Committee on Reconstruction in England tells us that “the Adult Education movement is inextricably interwoven with the whole organised life of the community. Whilst on the one hand it originates in a desire among individuals for adequate opportunities for self-expression and the cultivation of their personal powers and interests, it is, on the other hand, rooted in the social aspirations of the democratic movements of the country. In other words, it rests upon the twin principles of personal development and social service. It aims at satisfying the needs of the individual and at the attainment of new standards of citizenship and a better social order…. The creative use of leisure is of central importance to the modern state if democratic government is to be made effective…. The Adult Education movement means that whatever there is of a creative character in the national genius—its songs, its folk-tales, its history, its love of the artistic crafts—will be used for the training of a people able to utilize its powers.”