Some adult high schools may also offer general interest programs such as computer skills or other continuing education courses.
Samuel Fox is credited with helping William Singleton to start the first "Adult School"[1] in Nottingham, England in 1798.
[3] William Singleton, a Methodist, started the school, but it was Fox and the staff from his grocer shop that maintained it.
[4] The school grew to include men, but it was said that Fox was specifically interested in improving adult education.
Fox conducted lessons for three mornings a week for students of more advanced arithmetic and he would fund some to go to become teachers themselves.