The role of cultural practices and knowledge plays in the transferring and preservation of cultural heritage cannot be over emphasized and there are veritable medium by which cultural heritage are transferred from one generation to the other. However, it has been observed that adults’ participation, preservation and conservation of cultural heritage has not really been effective. As a result of this observation, this study sought toexamine if adult education enhances adults’ participation in the preservation of cultural heritage and values, deduce whether adult education will influence the preservation of the cultural heritage and values of the people of Ondo State and investigate how the missing link of adult education can help adult participation in the preservation of cultural heritage and values specifically in Akoko North West Local Government Area as a case study. Three research questions guided the study. Descriptive research design of the survey type was adopted for the study. The population for this study consists all adults’ indigenes of Ikare, OkeAgbe, Arigidi, Irun and Ogbagi towns in Akoko North West Local Government Area in Ondo State. Sample of hundred and twenty five (125) adults were randomly selected from these towns in the local government for the study. Data collected were analyzed through the use of frequency counts and percentage. The findings revealed that adult education is capable of impacting knowledge and love for cultural heritage that would inspire adults to participate in preservation of their cultural heritage and to pass the knowledge to coming generations. Also, if learners are taught accurately in the right way that will make them fall in love with learning and also make them incur ways of preserving cultural heritage fast and easily they will be interested in learning more and putting in practice what they have learnt. Lastly, adult participation in adult education would open their eyes to the importance of cultural heritage, .....