[NLA] Bob Bickerton's note

[Bickerton, Robert P]

A well supported right with all the encouragement to take advantage of it
that we should expect to accompany suffrage -- but not compulsory.  Access
to acquire a strong foundation of basic skills should/must continue through
our lives -- not end at the age of 21.

bob bickerton

-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly Bruce [mailto:kelly_bruce at gse.harvard.edu]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 2:01 PM
To: nla at lists.literacytent.org
Subject: [NLA] Bob Bickerton's note


Hello, Mr. Bickerton:

Some quick questions regarding your most recent note on adult 
education as part of a new "social contract": what would such a 
system look like?  Would it be the same system we have now only with 
more support--financial and social?  Would it be compulsory--as in 
the K-12 system, which mandates according to age--for those adults 
who have not yet achieved a "minimum level of skills?"  Or would it 
be like universal suffrage--i.e., it is a citizen's right and 
responsibility to vote but not her legal obligation to do so.

Best,
Kelly Bruce



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Kelly Bruce
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy	
Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Email: Kelly_Bruce at gse.harvard.edu

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