Word: adult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following is the comment on the General Education Report received yesterday from Alvin Johnson, Director of The New School for Social Research in New York City. Known chiefly for his interest in adult education and for his so-called "University in Exile" at the New School, Johnson is an independent thinker not associated with any of the "schools" of educational thought in America today...
Community-sponsored adult education, says the Committee, should make every attempt "to keep the break in learning between school and adult life as brief as possible," and it is recommended that the school itself "be the civic center for adult education...
...great mass of those . . . in need of the awakening and diversification and development of their curiosities are untouched" by present adult education methods where they exist, it is maintained. "Humble people, especially, are often barred off . . . from chances which should be especially theirs. They need skillful encouragement of a sort which experienced teachers of adults know best how to give...
...them daring, a few visionary - for the immediate future : ¶Syracuse is going all out for television. Starting with a small station, it hopes to set up a room-to-room telecasting system on the campus to give mechanical ex perience to students, telecasting experience to teachers of adult-education pro grams. When television comes into its own, Syracuse will be able to hook into regular local stations with illustrated lectures, dramas, concerts, sports events...
Papa's Boys by Day. Says Colonel Sandier: "The personality structure of the somnambulist is that of the overprotected, babied adult. . . . Somnambulism, in its essence, represents to the sleepwalker an attempt to escape from threatening dangers...