A speech on the importance of adult education?

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What is adult education? So many adults are returning to the classroom that the term "adult education" has become somewhat confusing. Adult education in the widest sense is any form of learning adults engage in beyond traditional schooling. In the narrowest sense, adult education is about literacy, about adults learning to read the most basic materials. So adult education encompasses everything from basic literacy to personal fulfillment as a lifelong learner, even the attainment of advanced degrees.
Upto the end of World War I, there had been very little progress in the sphere of adult education in India which was confined to night schools in metropolitan cities. However, some of the en- lightened Indian rulers of the princely States of Baroda, Travancore and Mysore had extended financial support to night schools. They also set up rural libraries mostly in the 19th century, and gave them patronage. The national leaders who steered the freedom movement were also concerned with the question of educating the masses as a part of the independence agenda. When the Congress Governments came to power in some provinces in 1937, adult literacy and education got included among the responsibilities of the Government. A series of provincial mass literacy campaigns were launched during 1937-39. But the Congress governments went out of power and the campaigns petered out. A CABE Committee appointed in 1939 on the problem of illiteracy suggested provision of facilities for adult education on the widest scale and introduction of free and compulsory primary education, as complementary activities. Besides, the Committee also suggested supplementation of official efforts by voluntary agencies interested in social amelioration. However, the Sargent Committee (1944) asserted that the State must accept the responsibility for these programmes and solve the problem within 25 years.

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