Vocational education is designed to equip students with the proper means for arriving at their selected goals. Adult education goes beyond the means … - Eduard C. Lindeman

Adult education more accurately defined begins where vocational education leaves off. Its purpose is to put meaning into the whole of life.

From many quarters comes the call to a new kind of education with its initial assumption affirming that education is life—not a mere preparation for an unknown kind of future living. Consequently all static concepts of education which relegate the learning process to the period of youth are abandoned. The whole of life is learning, therefore education can have no endings. This new venture is called adult education—not because it is confined to adults but because adulthood, maturity, defines its limits.

Intelligence is goodness in the sense that one cannot purposefully or positively experience the good unless conscious experimentation in the realm of values accompanies activity. Habitual goodness lacks dynamic qualities—is in fact not goodness in any real or living sense.