ABSTRACT
People react to experiential learning experientially; they experience it. The simple idea that most people are learning most of the time in one way or another speaks of their humanity. No-one needs telling that a child learns. Adults enjoy watching children learning. In the adult world most adults forget all this. All the learning to do this, not do that, mastering something new, gets overlaid with the effort that goes into those experiences so that it is always taken for granted. Taken for granted means of no account. The friends, the lovers, the relatives who feel taken for granted are complaining that there is no recognition of their true worth. The relationship between APEL and education institutions is obvious. And this is particularly true for teachers of adults. In employment there are increasing benefits as well. For anyone responsible for other people, it can articulate what is known, can sharpen perceptions.
