Abstract
Mr. Ritchie has asked me to discuss “Problems and Methods of Adult Education in an Art Museum.” We can assume, I think, that he has a rather special class of adult in mind. He doesn't mean the, presumably, adult college students of whom Dr. Munro has spoken, nor the museum trainees of Miss Neilson's paper. I take him to mean, though he may never have heard the classic definition standardized by the Association of Adult Education, “those persons whose formal education is over, whether it stopped with the end of eighth grade, of High School, College or Graduate School.” Further, the adult student who sits at the feet of the museum instructor has no ulterior purpose in haunting the galleries, unless it be to come in out of the cold; he is not hoping to improve his economic status with vocational courses. It is these people that I have in mind, but while the proposal I wish to make applies preeminently to them, it should, I think, lie behind all our museum teaching.
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