The purpose of the National Endowment for the Humanities is to help thinkers, teachers, scholars, and writers develop the humanities as sources of insight into human problems and priorities. (Author/MM)

Essay emphasizes that adult education should be directed to general studies in the humanities and science rather than occupation training, imparting the best that has been known and thought from the past and the present...." (Author/PD)

Biographical essay about the Chilean poet to whom the Nobel Prize for literature was awarded in 1945. A list of her recommendations for reform and innovation in Chile's educational program. (VW)

Part of a four-article report on "Learning in Black Colleges.

Continuing education can help health practitioners move beyond the narrow confines of their specialty so that they can identify themselves with the mainstream of humanity. (SK)

Asserts that the resources available for teaching values through the humanities are unlimited and offers specific examples of suitable works. (Author/WD)

Cites the growing influence of new technologies as a major force in the rise of a cultural studies that tends to marginalize literature. Contends that reading must be distinguished from theory and that genuine acts of reading disable or disqualify the theory that may have been the motivating presupposition of the reader. (PA)

Argues that transitioning from physical education to kinesiology involved developing the kinesiological sciences such that the discipline has become dominated by a scientific outlook, thus marginalizing the humanistic features of movement. Gym classes are being weeded out of many university programs, with the claim that they must be retained and…