No Limits to Learning-A Study of a Community's Older People's Learning Group

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Learning should not be hindered by ones' age, gender or capacity of literacy. But very often people's right to learn is limited exactly due to these reasons. This paper shows how a group of older people, organized by a community leader to form a learning group, used multiple approaches in order to overcome the obstacles that block people, especially women, from learning. The learning group lasted for more than four years, and they were invited to attend the commencement of a nearby university.