ABSTRACT
There could be a decisive stimulation for a new adult education if it were carried on in connection with ideal high school, its buildings, and its campus. Even the best possible development of all that we now usually understand by the term "adult education" would fall short of the ideal, however. While every movement in adult education which had some lasting influence on the life of the people, as for example the American Lyceum at the time of Horace Mann, might have used lectures, meetings, schools, and artistic performances, it was always much more than that. The chapter presents the wider concept of adult education it will refer to three areas in particular. First, to adult education in relation to the social and political life of a nation; second, to adult education in relation to religious life and third to adult education in relation to a uniting world view of secular character.
