成人教育以学习者为主体,其功能从根本上说,是帮助成人学会学习。先前关于学会学习必要性的论述,多从适应世界迅速变革的角度出发,即强调学会学习以接受个人生活和职业生活中出现的新生事物这种需要。这种需要现在不仅依然存在,而且变得更加强烈。每个人如不学会学习,这种需要是无法得到满足的。但是,适应需要是被动的,它难以反映学 Adult education, with learners as its main body, is basically a function of learning to help adults to learn. Earlier statements about the necessity of learning to learn more from the point of view of adapting to the rapid transformation of the world, emphasizing the need to learn to accept the new things emerging in personal and professional life. This need now not only remains, but also intensifies. If everyone does not learn to learn, this need can not be met. However, adaptation needs are passive and difficult to reflect on learning