Adult Education

Adult Education

Adult education is meant to educate the adults or grown-up people. We feel the need of adult education when a great number of people are illiterate. It is also always required because new discoveries and inventions take place every other day. Adult education enables the people to accommodate the new thing in society. For instance, Computer Education, Internet Information, Mobile Phone etc. Require education so these things get their proper place without getting failure on either part. Adult education has a number of forms. First of all, it means the teaching of a language to adults. They are taught how to read and write. They learn from their teachers and books. Adult education also means teaching skills to adults. They are taught how operate certain machines in factories, how to grow special crops etc. They are taught about their responsibilities and the ways of fulfilling them.

There is a great need for adult education in all over the world. If they give proper adult education to our people, they can become efficient workers in industry and agriculture. Educated laborers can handle machines and instrument wisely. They can learn new methods of increasing production in factories. They can learn new methods of growing good crops. In business, educated shopkeepers and traders can understand their work better. They can understand the needs of their customers. They can learn different of doing business from books and other means simultaneously. Through adult education, we can bring our people and government closer. If most of our people become educated they can quickly understand the plans of the government. They can follow the speeches of their rulers or leaders well. They can cooperate with the government properly in different fields for the good of the country. More than this they can give their suggestions to the government. There are some good ways of giving adult education. First of all, our schools and colleges should have arrangement for adult education. Special classes for adult can languages and other subjects. The government should try to provide some buildings in every city for adult education. It should also try to provide special places for adult education in villages. Our village people themselves should set aside some places for adult education. Then the government may keep teachers or volunteers to teach adults. Students should go to villages for some time in the summer vacation to teach villagers. Villagers would welcome such students and would be happy to learn from adults. Electronic and print media can also play their vital role in educating adults. Special educational programs for adults should be presented on them. There should be radio and television sets for the common people in the streets of a city. One or two radio and television sets should be there in every village. The people themselves should collect funds to buy them or government should provide them. Even good educational films can be shown to the people on the radio and television. We should teach our adults how to read and write. We should teach them how to work well in their different professions. We should make them better citizens through adult education. And this method will always maintain harmony in the society.