Life is a permanent LEARNING and there's no appropriate age to LEARN. One just need to be willing! The issue should not be about what one is learning, from whom or which circumstances one is learning. The best way to do it is to start with a thought directed to what one to attain making use of a definite PURPOSE. This remind me of my grand-mother. She had her own way to let me understand why schooling brings basic life insurance along with.
Education is Future and Life, she kept telling me. Following this basic paradigm we do support education for all and insist Discrimination of any kind be banished from schools whether for adults, for the youth or children. With Education the poorest among poor may have hope for a better life and count in the society. This is why my Grand-mother told me repeatedly: