ABSTRACT
THE union of scholars and ordinary working people for the purpose of adult education may be regarded either as a revolutionary move towards the realization of an educated democracy or as a temporary phase in the struggle towards greater equality of opportunity in education, to be superseded, as with earlier voluntary educational experiments, when the system of education as a whole has grown to the full measure of the need. That is the problem which begins to face us as the story proceeds: adult education in its succeeding and progressive forms as providing temporary stop-gaps; or adult education, in whatever form it may finally take, as a permanent need of an educated democracy.
