Adult education will serve mankind best if it refuses to become a docile, sterile system only to feed the factories, offices, and homes of production and consumption. Adult education will serve best if it teaches principles, foundations, habits, and attitudes which question, which test on logical and intelligent criteria. (Author)

Motivated by the belief that there is a pressing need for more research in community education, this article sets forth some ideas about how the field might stimulate increased activity in this area, and develops a model for a research and planning division in local community education programs. (Author)

A discussion of the changing goals of higher education, including academic excellence, personal identity, and social utility and their implications for evaluating learning. (Editor)

An aggressive, purposive, inventive, well-equipped educational pursuit, not merely for the teacher but for education in general, is expounded by the author to break through the established system of hallowed traditions and familiar habits of society. (Author/PG)

Teachers must learn to act consciously on principle if we are to make justice the central value in the school system and thus provide an equal education for all. (HMD)

The purpose of this article is not to teach anyone how to use a certain word; rather it is to examine the presuppositions, uses, and implications of the concept 'appreciation' in order to make it a more serviceable instrument in educational discussions. (Author/RK)

With erosion of confidence in the political state, academic influences are becoming increasingly local. The consequences of this influence are discussed. (Editor/PG)

The changing role of Danish folk high schools is discussed in general terms, and the Kolding Folk High Schools's growth is used as a specific example. Once stressing political awareness, the schools now stress political activity. (AG)

The case for the behavioral objectives approach to educational planning and evaluation has rested largely on a conceptual critique of nonbehavioral objectives. The argument against nonbehavioral objectives has been that when educators use such objectives, they cannot know what they are trying to achieve, and, even if they could know, they would…

The author feels that the traditional background in sociology, or even social administration, does not provide suffient personal guidance to those who work in administrative positions. Objectivity and compassionate understanding must be combined in the applied social science curricula. (Author/PG)

If modern education is to remain humanistic, it needs to embody a type of technological education which avoids the technocratic pitfall. (Author/KM)

The Lyndon Baines Johnson High School in Austin, Texas, was designed to provide a responsive, individualized instructional climate at the high school level, partly because of tensions accompanying desegregation, high drop-out rates, and low achievement rates in basic skills. Evaluation of this program is intended to determine whether the…

This needs assessment statements bank has been prepared as a resource for school districts that are engaged in the Local Planning and Assessment Process. Its purpose is to provide local educators with a variety of statements that can be used directly or with modification in preparing a needs assessment survey. Under each of eight broad goal…

The rationale of religious studies in the curriculum and how they may be conducted is discussed. (Editor/PG)

The article describes a two and a half day course entitled "Manager Development" which focused on the development of learning goals. (BP)