Adult Education Program.

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It is education and enlightenment that lifts a nation to the heights of progress and greatness, but the situation in India in respect of education is distressing and deplorable. Still it is not too late if the programme of mass adult education or social education is undertaken in right earnest as a mass movement. Adult education generally means, the education of the grow-up men and women who are above eighteen years and still illiterate. Education is the basic of the economic and cultural development of a country. The vast masses of people living in rural India form the majority of population of the country. If they remain illiterate, no upliftment of the country is possible. If their living condition is improved and literacy is imparted, then they will be able to realize their position, and will themselves act for their improvement. The scope of adult education is very comprehensive. It covers all those topics that are not touched by education in general at school. Topics like religion, politics, family planning, concepts of reality of universe and life, balance and independent judgments, human relationship, citizenship, economic efficiency, and so on are discussed with the adults, who have mature understanding. It aims at giving a new orientation to the outlook of adults to suit the dynamic world. It fulfills various purposes, remedial, vocational, health, recreational, self-development and social skills. It also aims to at social cohesion, national efficiency and development of national resources. Literacy does not mean simple the ability to sign one’s name. A person will be called literate if he can read, write, and do sums as well as show his skill, in doing something for his improvement and improvement of the society. Though our Govt. wanted to remove illiteracy, it has not been able to do much in this regard. This is because, the work of adult education in

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