Education

Adults are grown-up people. Adult education means educating those adults who are not educated. In some countries, there is little need for adult education because education is compulsory and everybody is educated. In some countries, there is need for adult education because the majority of the people are uneducated. In Nepal, many people are uneducated because education is not compulsory in our country.

Our country cannot advance until the majority of the adults are educated. It is the adults who form the working class. If they are not educated, they cannot understand the problems of our country. They cannot study and understand the development plans. We cannot expect them to co-operate in such plans when they do not understand them. Uneducated conservative and believe in superstitions and traditional methods. They do not know the changes that have taken place in the world. They are slow to move with the times.

Nepal is a country of peasants. The prosperity of our country depends upon the prosperity of our peasants. The peasants of our country are illiterate and ignorant. They follow the traditional methods of agriculture. They do not know the improved methods of agriculture. The production of their fields is low. They do not use improved methods of cultivation and new types of seeds and manure. They cannot market their products at a good profit. They do not know the importance of co-operative societies and banks. They do not know the importance of co-operative societies and banks. They do not know the importance of sanitation and health. Their houses and compounds are dirty. We cannot expect to improve the condition of the peasants without educating them.

If the adults are educated, they will educated their children, and education will spread in the country. Nowadays, only a small number of the children of our country go to schools. The majority of the children stay at home and help their parents at work. Such children will grow up into ignorant and illiterate persons like their parents. If the parents are educated, then only educated will spread in our country, and we can have a program of compulsory education for all children.

Therefore, adult education is very necessary.