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G. K. Duncan  \nProfessor of History and Politics, University of Adelaide, Chairman of the Board of Adult Education, University of Adelaide, Formerly Director of Tutorial Classes, University of Sydney  \nI was reminded of my schoolboy days when I read the opening words of the first number of the Newsletter, to be issued quarterly by the Australian Association of Adult Education. In our textual study of Macbeth (does this sort of thing still go on?), we were asked to say what punctuation mark we thought most appropriate after Lady Macbeth’s famous words ‘We fail’, when trying to screw her husband’s courage to ‘the sticking place’. A question mark, indicating that the possibility of failing had never occurred to her before? A full stop, suggesting resignation, or fatalism? An exclamation mark—to be accompanied by a scornful tone of voice? Which of these alternatives fitted in best with our conception of Lady Macbeth’s character? Iplumped for the exclamation mark. (The edition I now have gives a colon—that would have floored us!)  \n558 W. G. K. Duncan  \nThe opening words of the Newsletter were simply “WEARE!”—and I wondered whether the Editor had used the exclamation mark to indicate surprise, relief, triumphant satisfaction at difficulties overcome, or a sense of exhilaration at future prospects. More than a little of each would have been justified, in view of the issues involved and the unconscionably protracted period of gestation—the duration and difficulties of which would have shamed even an elephant. The need for some sort of nation-wide organization in the field of adult education has been felt, and I thought agreed upon, for over forty years. Is it any wonder that considerable impatience was expressed during the past few years at the inability of the relevant groups, at conference after conference, to agree upon the appropriate form, composition, and functions for such an organization? Now, at long last, it is launched—or born, to keep to our previous metaphor, and it is up to all of us to see that it neither dies from neglect nor is expected to run before it can walk.  \nIt may be salutary to remember that this new Australian Association had a predecessor (in the Federal Council ofthe W.E.A.) to acknowledge its achievements and to probe for the causes of its eventual failure. Perhaps it was too narrowly based, too restricted in its appeal, or too ‘alien’ ever to become properly assimilated in Australia. Or was it simply that the time wasn’t ‘ripe’—whatever that means? Mr. Hutchinson, in a companion article in this number, reminds us of a similar ‘false start’ (or what I should prefer to  \ncall a similar ‘gallant effort’) in the international field. The World Association of Adult Education during the twenty years of its effective existence not only published a very informative Bulletin, but sponsored a number of occasional publications such as the 70-page booklet on The Present Position ofAdult Education in Sweden prepared by W. H. Marwick in 1938. The prefatory note is worth quoting: ‘Mr. Marwick held a Bursary awarded by the World Association for Adult Education for tutors and organizers engaged in Adult Education to visit a country other than their own’. Quite  \nAgenda fora national association 559  \na useful precedent for our own Association. Even after the World Association stopped publishing, it remained an extremely useful centre of information. I still remember, with gratitude, the prompt and generous assistance given me by its secretary, Miss Dorothy Jones, when I was preparing a report on adult education for the Commonwealth Government, in 1944.  \nLikewise, it is worth recalling that one of the first enterprises of our W.E.A. Federal Council was to publish a series of books ‘for the use of students in tutorial classes and elsewhere’. They were certainly read and used ‘elsewhere’; indeed, several of them","cbCaioPK2Ygmn1GT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioPK2Ygmn1GT","pdf",142119,"English","# Agenda for a national association\n## Need for nationwide organization in adult education\n## Predecessors and international precedents\n## W.E.A. 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