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Franciszek Urbańczyk (1900-1976) is not very popular, however a very important pioneer of polish andragogy. He mainly focused on the education of adults. He claimed that the reflection of adults’ education should expose skills, habits and competences of adult students. F. Urbańczyk made a very strong statement that education process initiator should always follow up-bringing purposes. In his thesis he focused a lot on historical context of this issue. This point of view clearly showed him the role of the permanent education in human development. It's worth to mention that the educator has made a border line between two ideas: learning and education when the subject is an adult person. The significant role in his educational theory is the problem of motivation of adults’ education.