There are so many institutions in the United States and other developed countries of the world today that offer education to adults of any genre. If you are interested, you will have no trouble at all finding your own personal niche. All you need is to be defined about what you are looking for, and to be willing to pay whatever they charge you to. The rest is simply about you being there when the classes are given.
I think just about every institution in the country has a program for adults. Even when it is a school that is meant strictly for kids, there is a general understanding that there are folks too who are beyond the regular age and who still have the guts to learn. With adult education practically everywhere you go, how can you ever remain illiterate?
A lot of social service programs insist on adult education for their workers amongst everything else that they make available. It is easy to see, especially when you consider all that people can get from them. Afterall, if they are going to be helping people, they have to position themselves rightly to do so, or you have to position them. I'm sure you agree.
Even if you have nothing else to do besides going to church all week round, you could still get your adult education there. Churches for a fact have some of the best programs known to people in that line.
Back in the day, when adult education was just starting out, it was focused almost exclusively on teaching adults to read and write. Today, you could learn almost anything and even get far higher educationally than you ever thought possible. I think the world is simply going to a place where anything is possible.
Adult education is not something you want to waste if you have the opportunity for it. Consider it a second chance to make things right after you have wasted much time when you were younger. Don't miss it this time. And the good thing is that it's never too late to improve your eduction, thanks to adult education.