In this discussion, the author's last public presentation before his death in 1974, is a dedication to dialogue as the essence of education. In the midst of modern consciousness-altering technology, he valued authentic conservation more powerful than LSD, meditation, and all the rest. (Editor/RK)

Learning disabilities are a health threat because they prevent a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and they should be treated with a variety of remedial strategies reflecting their multiple causes. (MB)

Academic institutions can assume responsibility not only for analyzing major social issues and ideologies but also for offering opportunities to students to experience and involve themselves in them. (Editor)

The infrequency of significant personal leadership in U.S. colleges and universities is traced to means/ends substitutions and to external distractions. As a result, administrators' attention is directed away from the purposes of their institutions. (LBH)

Asserts that policy debate is declining, mainly because of incomprehensible argumentation and speaking. Claims that judges should intervene in the debate process to demand certain minimums of effective argument. Advocates the creation of a debate coach organization that would establish general norms for judging behavior. (MM)

Focuses on the role and responsibility of providing advanced learning opportunities for rural adult learners. Outlines ways in which continuing higher education should respond to their educational needs and suggests a framework for a collaborative approach to meeting this challenge. (JOW)

Outlines some procedures for dealing with complaints and criticism over textbook selection practices. (HOD)

Presented are two lectures on the social responsibility of physicists and physics teachers given at the English Royal Institution on April 29, 1976, by Mr. M. F. D. Young and Mr. R. Schofield. (SL)

States that most experimental, quantitative, statistical research in education is useless and even misleading or erroneous, because educational quality cannot be measured by quantitative analysis. Author urges educators to refer to literature, philosophy, history, and above all, common sense and experience, to make their own evaluations. (RW)

The importance of a candid evaluation of the departmental chairperson's own performance is discussed. Questions are provided as an aid in probing some of the critical concerns of a departmental staff. (HD)

Leading scientists and humanitarians were asked questions regarding the intellectual split between their Two Cultures (see C. P. Snow). Positive efforts in the integration of the sciences and humanities were described in education news media, and national programs. A call was made for the development of a Third Culture--social science. (CS)

This book is a collection of speeches by M. Hayes Mizell. The book is divided into three parts. In part 1, Mizell reviews some of the challenges middle schools must overcome to become effective places of teaching and learning. His suggestions range from developing a new kind of middle school principal to better serving young people's…

Article describes a hypothetical formal educational system developed from a particular knowledge of the existing forms of formal education in the less developed nations of Africa and Latin America. (Author)

The BBC should present programs which are geared, both in content and method of presentation, to the educationally disadvantaged since radio and television are among the more obvious ways to reach them. The issue arises from discussion of a Fourth Channel. (Author/AG)

The challenge ahead for higher education is not to convert the new learners to traditional learners, but to convert traditional education to a new education that will serve us all better. (Author)