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...Cicero & Ceramics. The nation's new schoolmasters range from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Extension Service, which reaches 8,000,000 students, to the Y.M.C.A. with 70,000, to I.B.M. with 16,000, and to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union with 12,700. More than 15 million adult Americans are attending Sunday schools or classes under the auspices of various church groups, nearly 2,000,000 are taking courses from various U.S. libraries, and an estimated 5,000,000 are going to school via TV. At the same time, the foundations are stirring...
...giving the folks more training-whether in Cicero or ceramics-adult education has turned itself into a full-fledged profession. More important: it has a future that seems limitless. "I predict," says Malcolm Knowles, administrative coordinator of the A.E.A.. "that the education of adults will become accepted as a public responsibility, just as the education of children is now ... In my opinion, the total budget for adult education of all types will eventually exceed the total expenditures for childhood education." In other words, America will be the place where school is never...
...spare time Translated the Bible. Quick to disparage All arts but learning, Jerome liked marriage Better than burning But didn't like woman's Painted cheeks; Didn't like Romans, Didn't like Greeks, Hated Pagans For their Pagan ways, Yet doted on Cicero all his days...
Chicago. Aiming point: the International Amphitheater in the stockyards. Destroyed: the Loop, the Gold Coast, the University of Chicago, Municipal Airport, Cicero. Badly blasted: the South Side steel mills and the North Shore suburbs...
Someone said that freedom must be defended at all times because, like virtue, it is at all times besieged. This is true for all, and for all cases. But the profound meaning of freedom must be understood. The best definition was given by Cicero: "Freedom is participation in power." Only in democracy can we have direct and indirect participation in power. But power presupposes property−and property means initiative, responsibility and risk. This is a law of history. Therefore, the proletarian will have no power as long as he remains a proletarian...