But what is adult education? Quite simply it is learning—about anything at all which can help us to understand the environment we live in, and the manner in which we can change and use this environment in order to improve ourselves. Education is not just something which happens in classroom—Julius Nyerere, 1969.
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Perraton, H. Learning about anything. Prospects 7, 255–262 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02196084
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