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Preparation for lifelong education

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Although a controversial concept and often badly understood, lifelong education, with its broad perspective and as a new field of research, seems to offer a way to bring the school and life closer together.

This article illustrates how academic training may—or may not—predispose the student towards lifelong education.

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  1. Report of the Ministry of Reconstruction Adult Education Committee, London, HMSO, 1919, p. 5.

  2. R. Livingstone,Education for a World Adrift, Cambridge, 1943, p. 42.

  3. Part III of the Plowden Report (Children and Their Primary Schools, A Report of the Central Advisory Council for Education (England), London, HMSO, 1967) is relevant and important.

  4. Half our future, A Report of the Central Advisory Council for Education (England), London, HMSO, 1963.

  5. Copyright, 1967. Northern Songs Limited (Lennon and McCartney).

  6. W. R. Elliott, ‘Schools, Colleges, and Universities’, in:Lifelong Learning, p. 43, Oxford, 1969.

  7. R. Livingstone,The Future in Education, p. 19, Cambridge, 1942.

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  1. Extra-Mural Department of, Oxford University, Oxfort, UK

    Frank W. Jessup (head of the)

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and was formerly Deputy County Education Officer for the County of Kent. He is also the Honorary Secretary of the (British) Universities Council for Adult Education and the Chairman of the Library Advisory Council (England).

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Jessup, F.W. Preparation for lifelong education. Prospects in Education 1, 25–29 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354313

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