From these components, it will be seen that adult and mass education as well as the grassroots population of our people, will remain the life wire of the UBE Scheme. This is because without the means of literacy, our people have no idea whatsoever what their potentials are not where these potentials might carry them. They lack the key to unlock either past or present fountains of knowledge or the informed visions of the future. And if we ever hope to educate our youth and children successfully, then adult education also needs to be given urgent attention because it is only a literate adult that will appreciate the need to send his child to school. Adult education should therefore remain unique and special in the UBE Scheme arising from the need for unabated deliberate effort to mobilise the adult illiterates in a developing nation such as Nigeria.
Children are like seeds in the hands of adults.
It is the kind of fruits they are cultured to bear that they would germinate to bear at adulthood. Thus, in a society where the adults are ill informed, poor and disease-ridden, dependent and crippled by illiteracy, the future of their children, who themselves are future adults, becomes precarious and susceptible to inheriting all the ills accompanying illiteracy. International organisations concerned with Sustainable Human Development have therefore been concerned not only about the formal school system but all other forms of education that are believed would provide the opportunity to those who, for one reason or the other, could not cope or never had access to the regular school. In realising this critical need, sensitisation campaigns have been unleashed by the National Mass Education Commission within the past 6-7 years. Posters, Primers, Pamphlets and Booklets have been printed and widely circulated in order to mobilise all and sundry.