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The increasing need for education and training worldwide has made the ongoing issues of access and opportunity more pressing than ever. Why more adults, particularly under-represented adults, do not participate and how to increase participation are questions that have long beset the field of adult education and training. The skewed participation patterns are the result of a complex configuration of sociocultural and economic factors often beyond the control of the individual. Systematic responses that are political, educational, and technological in nature are evaluated for their effectiveness in addressing the problem. Finally, the challenges of access and opportunity are seen as but facets of the greater challenge of being reflective practitioners, of asking difficult questions, and of rising above the technology of our practice and the tyranny of economic profit.