The objekt of adult education is not the rising generation, the youth, that grows up quickly and steadly. Adult education is not a simple extention of youth education. Because the possibility of the education and learning for the adult generation is different from that of youth education. Namely, the teaching method as an educational device for the youth who lives on the increase of the mental power such memory and intellectual faculties has no meanings and values for the adult who loses gradually with the aging the mental power for the learning.
The craming system of education in schooling makes a most use of a increasing retentive faculty and intelligence. Accordingly it is possible only for the growing youth to use that educational method. The educational possibility of the aging generation must be in the other dimension.
We should reveal and understand the special character and peculiarity of adult generation to educate the adult with succeess. It is necessary to study the cultural anthropology of adult. This study can make us a scientific basis for adult-understanding. With this understanding we can recognize what is the possibility of adult education. Furthermore, this gives us a chance of finding the principle and method for adult education.