Grown-ups Ought To Know Better.

Overview & Synopsis

Among the articles by Sam Brightman collected in this volume from the newsletter, "Adult & Continuing Education Today (ACET)" are the following: "Grown-Ups Ought to Know Better"; "Adult Education: The Only Sure Factor Is Growth"; "Adult Education Important in This Election Year"; "Will Nursery School External Degree Programs Come Next?"; "Continuing Education in Political Science at Miami Beach"; "Harry S. Truman: A Lifelong Learner"; "If Everybody Has a Career, Who Will Do the Work"; "Some Downers from the Mailbag"; "A Worm's Eye Report on Getting Think Tanked"; "Continuing Education Offers a Smorgasbord of Fun and Learning"; "A Self-Planned Learning Experience"; "Is U.S. Entitling Itself to Bankruptcy?"; "Republicans Hostile to Federal Aid to Education"; "Carter Transition Team Studies Education"; "Maybe There's an Interface--You Should Excuse the Expression--Between Reading and Writing"; "Good News--Sort of--From Jossey-Bass and Playboy"; "Higher Educators Are 'Anticipating the Challenge of Lifelong Learning'"; "Foes of Mandatory Continuing Education Meet"; "A Bridge to the New Decade"; "Knowles Describes New Decade in Keynote"; "The Role of Adult Education in Community Education"; "Dear Mr. Stewart"; "The New Education Department"; "AEA [Adult Education Association] Criticizes Adult Learning Setup in New Department"; "Should the National Football League Become the Role Model for American Society?"; "Wingspread Conference Discusses Learning Programs to Help the Aged"; "If the Shoe Fits, Cut Off Your Foot"; "Lifelong Learning"; "Some Questions for 1983 and Beyond"; "The Democratic Platform"; "Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New"; "CAEO [Coalition of Adult Education Associations] Holds Last Show-and-Tell of 1984"; "Full Moon Time in Washington"; "Education Department Isn't Getting All of the Crazies"; "Another Education Reform Ignores Adult Education"; "Pick Your Caption"; "Sam Brightman's Milwaukee"; "Dick, Jane Are Yuppies But Spot Is Dead!"; "Show and Tell at the CAEO"; "Why Isn't Illiteracy as Profitable to Adult Educators as Sin Is to Preachers?"; "Revisiting a Success Story in Adult Education"; "What Every Course Marketer Should Know about Old Folks"; "National Center of Adult Learning Established"; "Service Bill Gets Educator's Attention"; "Decline and Fall of the Information Society"; "Proprietary Schools under Fire"; "Myles Horton Lived His Beliefs"; "Parents Need Adult Education"; "Retiring Rep Hawkins in Education Fight"; "Learners: Customers or Clients?"; "Commission Urges Testing Reforms"; "Comments about Learners''Rights'"; "Can the Free Safety Save the Day"; "In Defense of Anecdotal Evidence"; "Recession a Boost to Adult Enrollment"; "Are We Thinking for Ourselves?"; "Beautiful Dreams, Nightmare Reality"; and "Class Warfare." (YLB)