Conant Commends Radio as Medium for Adult Education

Adult education via radio earned some high remarks from President Conant and five other educators on a special broadcast over WHDH last night, Speaking on the anniversary of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, the President called radio "one of the most important agencies for continuing education of the population."

"It is impossible to provide more than a beginning of general education by formal education," he admitted. "The real general education of any mas is a life's work by the man himself."

However, President Conant said, "Radio programs and courses by the teachers of the humanities can stimulate a man to begin the life work of achieving a general education."

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"As matters stand today," he added, "many a future businessman, lawyer, or engineer ends his college career without having received the stimulation which would make him a continuing student of literature and the arts."

"How to correct this situation is the question that the program of general education in our university places before the teachers of the humanities."

The panel of which President Conant was a member examined and commented on 412 educational broadcasts produced by the Lowell Council during the past year. The broadcasts had included Basic English selections from the Iliad rendered by I. A. Richards, University Professor, and a series of talks on social relations by Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology.