世界范围内,终身教育已不仅仅是一个新的教育范畴,它是教育制度中一个重要组成部分,它将成为社会每一成员自觉使用与维护的权益。人们意识到正规普通教育虽仍然在教育系统中起着主要作用,但它已很难适应社会、经济、文化、科学技术的飞速发展。在义务教育之后,成人教育将成为人们不断适应发展变化,补充与更新知识,提高技能和陶冶情操的手段。在信息社会中,科学技术和社会经济文化的发展是迅猛的,因而一次性的学校教育远不能满足人民需要,各种类型、各种层次的成人教育得以迅速发展。终身教育、成人教育、继续教育,还有大学后教育、博士后教育、老年教育、转业教育以及函授教育、远距离教育、职工教育、进修、培训等等,有学生教育、中等教育,有学历教育、外学历教育,有普通高等、中等学校办教育,有独立的成人教育学校,有社会办教 Lifelong education in the world has become more than just a new category of education. It is an important part of the education system and it will become the right to be consciously used and upheld by every member of society. It is recognized that formal regular education, although still playing a major role in the educational system, has had difficulty adapting to the rapid development of society, economy, culture and science and technology. After compulsory education, adult education will become a means for people to constantly adapt to changes in development, supplement and update knowledge, improve skills and cultivate sentiments. In the information society, the development of science, technology and socio-economic culture is rapid. Therefore, one-time school education can not meet the needs of the people and the rapid development of adult education of all types and levels. Lifelong education, adult education, continuing education, as well as post-university education, post-doctoral education, senior education, job-seeking education and correspondence education, distance education, staff education, further education, training, etc. There are student education, secondary education and academic education , Education outside the school, there are ordinary higher education, secondary schools to do education, an independent adult education school, a society to do