Education: Facts & Fancies

U.S. adults are not nearly so well educated as they would like to be.

The National Education Association last week reminded the nation thatamong adults aged 25 or over:

¶ 4% have never gone to school at all.

¶ 13% have not completed fourth grade.

¶ 56% have only an eighth-grade education, or less.

¶ 75% have not finished high school.

Pollster George Gallup has countered this dismal reminder with a moresanguine survey:

¶ Over one-third of all U.S. adults hope to get more schooling after the war.

¶ 50% of these 25,000,000 citizens want professional and cultural studies. Only 34% want bread-&-butter vocational training.