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This paper looks at adult education in Denmark, suggesting that there are broad education systems which mainly serve adults with little schooling and unemployed people. These systems have expanded rapidly during the last eight years partly as a consequence of the government’s active labour market policy, but to some extent also because a growing number of adults are attracted to or feel it necessary to take an interest in adult education. The author suggests that adults are ambivalent in their attitudes to adult education. Many of the participants enter the programs because they are more or less forced to by labour market policy. At the same time, most people want to get or keep jobs and improve their position at work. The author suggests that they hope to enrich and challenge but fear being humiliated or challenged above their capabilities.