本文作者在查阅大量有关成人教育发展的文章的基础上,发现成人教育在发达国家有许多经验值得我们学习。发达国家成人教育都在沿着法制化、现代化、多元化、实用化、终身化的方向发展。把握好未来成人教育发展的大方向,将有助于我国成人教育持续健康地发展。 Based on a large number of articles on the development of adult education, the authors find that adult education has many experiences in developed countries that we should learn from. Adult education in developed countries is developing in the direction of legalization, modernization, diversification, practicality and lifelongness. To grasp the general direction of the development of adult education in the future will help our country’s adult education develop in a sustained and healthy manner.