Looks at some positive aspects of athletics, particularly football, to share some experiences both personal and vicarious to establish a truism: While athletics may not make great men, some great men have been athletes. (Editors/JF)

Report describes the rationale underlying a procedure for eliciting personal estimates of probabilities utilizing a proper scoring rule, and illustrates some new techniques for calibrating those probabilities and providing better feedback to students learning to assess uncertainty. (Author)

Seen throughout all the goals of education (the development of individuality, self-realization, human relationships, economic efficiency, and civic responsibility), the central purpose of education today is the development of rational powers to create the freedom of mind necessary for dealing with traditional tasks as well as with recent changes.…

Examines the constructs of individuation, differentiation, and identity formation from the individual development and family system theory perspectives. States that individuation and identity formation process encompass both the individual's efforts toward separation from family of origin and impact of these efforts on identity formation and the…

Examines the intellectual development of the French philosopher, Paul Ricoeur, who from his earliest work on phenomenology and symbolism to his more recent work on problems of language and text, has made significant contributions to both methodology and theory in the human science. (Author)

Approaches the regulation of aging by perturbing the rate of senescent changes in studying how the modulating agent exerts its effects. Shows that very subtle molecular changes may be involved in the overall regulation of cellular aging. (Author/BL)

Intentionality can be fostered among hearing impaired students by approaches to improve goal setting, striving, and ownership of consequences. (CL)

Fifty women and 43 men who did little college study in the 4 years following high school graduation were retested with a multiaptitude precollege battery. The conclusion is that women not enrolled in school suffer more intellectually than men. (Author)

A brief review of a videotaped speech by comedian Bill Cosby entitled, A Human Right: The Right to Learn," presented at the annual convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. (AK)

The various stages of a person's character development are discussed. (CK)

Literature can stimulate creativity and imagination necessary for the development of personal awareness and social consciousness. (NH)