Education within the vicious circle becomes not a joyous enterprise but rather something to be endured because it leads to a satisfying end. But there can be no genuine joy in the end if means are irritating, painful. Adult education is a process through which learners become aware of significant experience. Recognition of significance leads to evaluation. Educated persons find their satisfactions in bringing knowledge to bear upon experience, and the best-informed person is still ignorant if his knowing is not also a lively ingredient of his living.
Intelligence is the light which reveals educational opportunities in experience.
Life is experiencing and intelligent living is a way of making experience an educational adventure. Adult education, happily, requires neither entrance nor exit examinations. Adult learners attend classes voluntarily and they leave whenever the teaching falls below the standard of interest. What they learn converges upon life, not upon commencement and diploma. The external tokens of education are removed so that the learning process may stand or fall on its intrinsic merits.