ABSTRACT
The concept of 'adult education', we have seen, is the concept of a purposive activity directed to the fuller development of adults as persons in their personhood by the taking of measures which are proper for this purpose. The development of a person, it has been claimed, consists essentially in the enlargement of his awareness, the building up of his experience and knowledge in accordance with various requirements of breadth and balance; and the values implicit in this goal, it has been suggested, demand that an educational activity be marked by the qualities of wittingness, voluntariness, conscious control, interpersonal encounter, and active participation by the educand.
