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Primary and secondary schooling experiences of 21 adults (seven each from Denmark, Germany, and United Kingdom) showed positive views of primary and postcompulsory education but reservations about their progress in early secondary schooling. Results were attributed less to adolescent development factors than to management of the transition from dependence on teachers to growing autonomy. (SK)

The challenge of distance learning is to create purposeful working relationships through distance communication systems. Distance learning systems that overemphasize educational technology, materialism, and modularized approaches to learning run counter to individual processes of growth and change. (SK)