Contends that despite the association of disability and old age, old age provides a much more secure route to social welfare benefits than does disability. Notes the welfare state for the elderly is larger and enjoys stronger political support than the welfare state for the disabled. (Author/ABL)

Although educators and philosophers such as Johann Amos Comenius, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pestalozzi, and Froebel stressed the study of nature, outdoor education really began with the first teaching-learning act which occurred outdoors. The human being, physiologically and psychologically adapted for outdoor existence, has only been indoors for…