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THE growth of knowledge, and the necessary limitation arising from the age and duration of school life, create an ever-widening between the actualities and possibilities of education. The boy or girl who leaves school to enter some profession is able to secure suitable further training in pait-time classes at a local technical school or college. But there are many men and women who have no need of special training, or have already obtained what they require, but have intellectual needs which call for satisfaction. They read newspapers and books; they are members of clubs or societies; they acquire an interest in social or political or economic problems, or in philosophy, or literature, or science; and they enter into eager controversy on the problems of the day. Those who possess depth of feeling or understanding, whose interests are not the languid ephemeral interests of the man in the street, realise the need for wider and deeper knowledge, for training in methods of study, for direction of reading, and for friendly guidance and criticism.
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Natural Science in Adult Education. Nature 120, 609–611 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120609a0
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