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Show Education Week Being Observed November 10-16 Each year American Education Edu-cation Week is sponsored by the National Education Association, Assoc-iation, the American Legion, the National Congress of Parents Par-ents and Teachers, and the United States Office of Education. Educa-tion. This year American Education Edu-cation Week is being observed during November 10-16, and is having as its theme ' "America Has a Good Thing Going-Its Schools." Learning Goesl)nFor A Life-Time Life-Time Once upon a time, not so long ago, a student went to school and learned enough to last a lifetime. But nowadays, anyone who stops learning at any age is a drop-out. So say the sponsors of American Am-erican Education week. This is the annual visit - the - schools week in which more than 30 million parents participate. Most teachers try to teach youngsters techniques for learning, rather than just facts since the facts the student learns today may be obsolete 10 years from now. Thousands of young adults have already realized this. Each year about 25 millon of them go into adult education activities, mostly of a vocational vocation-al or recreational nature. By and large these adult students stu-dents are already well educated. educa-ted. Statistics show that a college col-lege - educated executive, housewife, or professional person per-son with a family income of more than $7,000 a year is six times more likely to be in an adult education program than a grade-school-educated, blue-collar blue-collar worker with an annual income of $4,000. Statistics like these show a need for schools to instill in those least likely to go to college col-lege a love of lifelong learning, as they are the ones who probably prob-ably could profit most from formal adult courses in later years. |