This report examines the need for education and training during working life, the present structure of opportunity for it, and preferred directions for the future. In the introduction are addressed the relevance of adult education to work life and the advantages of concentrating on worker education. Focus of the next section is the effect of social and economic changes on the need for a growing structure of learning opportunities during working life. The final section discusses those elements in the already developed adult education experience that constitute bases for a larger structure of learning opportunity. These include (1) the 1970s' developments in postsecondary and other educational institutions, (2) the private sector tuition aid programs, (3) the links between industry training and economic growth, and (4) the emerging application of electronic and media technology. (YLB)