Education: All There?

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About the closest anyone ever comes to denning adult education is to call it a "continuing process." At Manhattan's progressive New School for Social Research, long (41 years) a magnet for adults with time on their hands, the process continued last week in wondrous fash ion. Sample courses (total: 400) from the New School's catena!! fall bulletin:

¶Gourmet Exploration ($40, lunch extra) : Visits to African, Armenian, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish restaurants. The semester winds up with a class discussion on "low-caloric method."

¶"Being All There" ($72): "Conducted at Miss [Charlotte] Selver's studio, 315 West 57th Street, rear (4L)." Her theme: "We often discover that we are not fully aware, unable fully to experience—neither relate nor function—because we are still in the past or already in the future, while we act in the present. Clinging or being ahead of oneself diminishes the full play of the organism's potential. The Taoist attitude of intellectual silence, practice of inner quiet, fuller awakening of our inner and outer senses, bring us new depth and presence in what we experience and what we do."