ABSTRACT
The very resourcefulness of further education is part of a world-wide endeavour to come to terms with life in an industrialized society. Further education is clearly required in consequence of personal maturation. Reference is made to American institutions not to vilify them, but to avoid absurd misunderstandings about the rest of the world's provision for higher education. To most students nowadays the notion of 'higher education' or 'the university' is immensely evocative – a symbol of the highest status. Further and higher education as properly understood are not a second stage on the way towards an ordinary working maturity but a kind of tertiary education of an advanced, professional kind. In North America, cities and universities and in some matters the Federal government give tax-aided support to adult education. In the Soviet Union adult education is both very vigorous and greatly appreciated, in most encouraging circumstances.
