Importance of Adult Education

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James A Garfield once said, Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. It is education and enlightenment that lifts a nation to the heights of progress and greatness. Unfortunately, the situation as it obtains in India in respect of education is not only distressing but disgraceful and deplorable. At present about 60% of the people in India are illiterate. Adult education is needed because it is a powerful auxiliary and an essential incentive to primary education. In India, education has been provided to a few fortunate people and this has widened the gap between a few literate and millions of illiterate people in India. If democracy is to survive, we must educate the masses for adult education] Adult education is thus the foundation on which alone free India can build up a welfare state which will recognize the claim of both individual freedom and social security.is the new hope for illiterate masses. Adult education] is heeded to widen the intellectual and political horizon of the illiterate adults. It is also needed to sharpen the aesthetic sensibility of the adults and to set the cultural tone of the community. An educated person has the ability to differentiate between right and wrong or good and evil. It is the foremost responsibility of a society to educate its citizens. Moreover, social education is needed in order to guide in spending their leisure in healthful recreations and useful activities. Education is the best provision for old age Lastly, illiteracy and ignorance is a sin; an illiterate adult is a burden on society. Adult education emancipates people from the tyranny of illiteracy. . From the social and national point of view the purposes of adult education] are social cohesion, national efficiency and development of national resources. On the
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