Adult education program promotes thinking over rote viewpoints
The Fund for Adult Education, funded by the Ford Foundation, offers film discussion programs to stimulate civic thinking. Two series, Great Men and Great Issues in Our American Heritage and World Affairs Are Your Affairs, use films and guides to provoke discussion of national and world matters.
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Fund For Adult Education
Glen Burch
Chicago
On Worlds
United States
State Library to loan motion picture films statewide
Illinois Secretary of State Edward J. Barrett announced a new loan program through the Illinois State Library and University of Illinois visual aids to make the university film collection available to individuals and groups across the state. Catalogs were mailed to libraries and borrowers may arrange loans via local libraries. if no local service exists, the state library can supply the catalog. The only cost is postage to return films, with delivery starting September 1. The service aims to reduce duplications and aid PTA units Farm and Home Bureau groups 4 H clubs Scout troops and civic groups for fall and winter programs.
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Springfield
Ill
Edward J. Barrett
Illinois
Illinois State Library
The
Visual Aids Service
University of Illinois
Barrett
P.T.A
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