Using the course readings and others readings of interest, I created a short position paper outlining the purpose of adult education and which adult education theorist my views aligned with. I centered my paper around the ideas and perspectives of Eduard Lindeman, who offered a 'humanistic' perspective reinforcing the goal of adult education to be 'life-centered.' I attributed the needs of the individual and personal development as a primary driver for adult education where learning is a process of discovery and experimentation, and the responsibility for learning is on the learner who is at the center of the experience. I also recognized this as a source of dissonance too, where self-directed learning could be viewed as not fully supporting societal or emancipatory goals of adult education.