The principle of age-appropriateness is widespread throughout government policy and nongovernment practice guidelines, but the exact meaning of the term is rarely defined. It is commonly assumed to mean activities and approaches commensurate with an individual's chronological age. Dress, furnishing, object selection, and the style of interactions,…

Improving the relationship between academics and employers depends less on what courses students take than on what the work world has to offer. The division of life into youth for education, maturity for work, and older-age for neither must be reexamined so as to better utilize society's human resources. (AF)