Quiet as significant of the educational trend as the immense growth in high school provision and in college and university attendance during the last twenty years has been the movement for adult education. What gives it life and aim is the conception that education is a continuing process through life--an active, purposeful effort and not a mere nassive receptivity. The Association for Adult Education, now holding its annual session in New York, has no program of instruction and itself employs no teachers, but cooperates with five hundred organizations which have to do with various forms of adult education both in the United States and abroad.

President Butler's statement that only a few persons--"a very small minority"--continue to grow intellectually after reaching the age of 23 or 24, and that there are few whose intellectual and spiritual velocity still rises at 40, suggests the need of such a gospel, especially in this new era of increased leisure for all. Maeterlinek is quoted as saying that on the way in which these increased hours of freedom are spent may depend the whole destiny of man. And one may not, in the face of the results of Dr. Thorndike's researches into the adult's ability to go on learning, have an excuse for not continuing to learn, even into old age.

It is predicted that the "feverish task of attempting in a few years to cram facts enough into a child's head to last him for a lifetime" will within the oncoming generation be abandoned. The new education will help the child to make the most of its life as a child. And it will treat every period of life in the same way aiding the man who has "put away childish things" to make the most of himself. One hundred thousand men and women are now taking home study courses offered by nearly 150 colleges and universities. A recent study of these courses pronounces them a "very necessary part of our present educational system." Several colleges and universities are now be ginning to assist their alumni in continuing serious studies beyond college days. Radio in coming into use as an aid to the teacher in reaching still wider audience. The N. Y. Times.