GOOD MORNING RESPECTED TEACHERS AND MY DEAR FRIENDS. EDUCATION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WHICH IS MANDATORY FOR ALL THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE WORLD. WITHOUT EDUCATION PEOPLE CAN BE EASILY CHEATED, BE-FOOLED & DECEIVED. THEY THEN ARE GIVEN THE NAME WHICH MOST PEOPLE DON'T LIKE IS THE WORD 'ILLITERATES'. THEY ARE DISCRIMINATED AND THEY CANNOT JOIN THE MAINSTREAM WHICH IS A DIFFICULT TASK.
The scope of Adult education is very comprehensive. Social education covers all those topics that are not touched by education in general at school. Topics like religion, politics and family planning can now be discussed with adults who have a mature understanding. Moreover, it aims at giving a new orientation to the outlook of adults to suit the dynamic world. Then, the growth grooves of each individual are different from those of others. Social education harmonizes differences in growth and it also provides an opportunity for growth to those who have not been able to grow properly or completely earlier.
Democracy without education is meaningless. It is education and enlightenment that lifts a nation to the heights of progress and greatness. Unfortunately, the situation as it obtains in India in respect of education is not only distressing but disgraceful and deplorable. At present about 60% of the people in India are illiterate; they cannot differentiate a buffalo from a black mole. Adult education is needed because it is a powerful auxiliary and an essential incentive to primary education. No programme of compulsory universal education can bear fruit without the active support and co-operation of adult’s social education is needed in order to guide in spending their leisure in healthful recreations and useful activities. Lastly, illiteracy and ignorance is a sin; an illiterate adult is a burden on society. The difficulties have to be overcome either by cleverness, or by fact or by compromise, or may be, by