This study analyzes the graduation literature of the middle school courses of elderly literacy learners. The national literacy program provides academic recognition to the results of adult literacy programs taken in old age. This is a study on how friends, teachers, learning, and schools have been recognized and changed by elderly learners through the three-year middle school curriculum. To this purpose, 58 writings related to school life were analyzed as a case study method out of 125 writings of 16 elderly learners who completed three years of middle school courses. The study period was from February to December 2020. As a result, 84 concepts, 32 subcategories, and 12 top categories were found to be schools with friends, teachers and learning . At the school with friends, teachers, and learning, participants experienced a sense of belonging to self-acceptance during early-middle school, a sense of belonging to other-inclusiveness during mid-middle school, and a sense of belonging to contribution and appreciation during late-middle school.
The meaning of friends, teachers, learning, and school developed during that period. For elderly learners, the meaning of middle school was a stepping stone bridge that gave them a sense of belonging (love) and let them transform from having a lack of educational background toward self-realization.