Chapter 1: Anthony the Croupier Barriers to Success for Adult Learners. The problem. Anthony is a croupier taking bets seven nights a week in a local casino. Supporting a young family and elderly parents. He has a couple of vocational qualifications in catering and food hygiene but he is also a very talented and as yet untrained artist. His heartfelt desire is to go to art school and university. So he applies for and is accepted onto the level 2 diploma in art and design. He excels at illustration and Graphic Design and is good at speaking about art, has opinions and joins class debates. He realises he has a stark choice to make, that of a well-paid career in five years time (after graduation) in a graphic design company or back to the Roulette wheels. This choice rests on a resistance to reading and writing, a fear of failure, past catastrophe and defeat haunting him, blocking his ability to succeed, or even ask for help as well or because o...