众所周知,基层民众的自发性活动是社会教育发展最重要的群众基础,但仅仅依靠基层群众的自发性活动,终身教育是不能长久、深入地发展的。要保持终身教育的活力,体现和发挥终身教育本身的价值,必须依靠政府部门主导。而政府主导并不等于政府主办,在终身教育现阶段发展过程中,政府可在以下三个层面发挥主导作用,激发其活力。一是政策扶持。在我国,终身教育起步较晚, It is well-known that the spontaneous activities of grassroots people are the most important mass base for the development of social education. However, lifelong education can not be developed in a sustained and in-depth way by relying solely on the spontaneous activities of the grassroots. To maintain the vitality of lifelong education and to embody and give full play to the value of lifelong education itself, we must rely on government departments to take the lead. The government-led does not mean that the government sponsors, in the present stage of lifelong education in the process of development, the government can play a leading role in the following three levels to stimulate their vitality. First, policy support. In our country, lifelong education started later,