Importance of Adult Education

IMPORTANCE
OF
 ADULT EDUCATION

Illiteracy—being unable to read or write—is a curse. To remain ignorant is a great misfortune. For everyone, man or woman, acquiring knowledge is a DUTY. However, there are many people in our country who are not only uneducated but also illiterate. It is not enough that children should be educated but those grown-ups who have unfortunately remained illiterate should be educated too. Adult education centres should, therefore, be established every where.

Adult education is very essential for the progress of any country. In countries like ours (Pakistan) where only about 5% of the people are educated, adult education is all the more essential. If the parents are educated, they will try to give education to their children too, because they will realise the value of education. Parents who are themselves uneducated will not care much for their children’s education. If adults are educated they will be better qualified to face their problems of life. An educated lady, for instance will prove to be a better wife and mother than she was before. A grown up man after being educated will perhaps get a better job and earn more; he will learn to take keener interest in the welfare of his family; he will know how to employ his leisure in a useful way. All these and many more are the benefits of Adult Education.

Adult education must be free in order to attract people towards it. Men who work for the whole day to earn their livelihood or woman who slave for the whole day at home, cannot be expected to pay and be educated. It should, therefore, be free. Government and social bodies and institutions can establish Adult Education centres.  It would be the duty of educated people to go to these centres and teach free and help towards the noble task of education among the uneducated people of their country.