The Role of Arts in Adult Education

For adults and old people, arts can be a relief, an opportunity to re-activate, strengthen and increase an existential joy. The present study is focused on the aims of adult aesthetic education, on the specificity of adult esthetical education, on the compensatory and healing virtues of aesthetic education achieved within specific institutions (schools, museums, associative structures). Any responsible educational project assumes a position on aesthetic and artistic training of persons, irrespective of age. Education concerning arts denotes a particular way of seeing the human being, a unique life philosophy, a vision of what is most precious for a person. Appreciating art within the society offers an axiological dimension of this society, of its attitude and axiological refinement. Education in the field of art leads to new horizons because it fosters an inquiring and reflective spirit and it offers a superior meaning to life itself.