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Published: July 19, 2007, 9:53 am

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Adult education', as a phrase always amuses me. I always picture education of an adult nature rather than adults being educated. It's much like children's fiction' (or military intelligence') in that it can be misleading as a phrase. In my day (to exercise a phrase my late grandfather overused, even when he wasn't finishing the sentence with this was all fields') we were fed the classics. When I was only a wee columnist, we did not have contemporary bestselling children's books revolving around children my age learning to use magic, tame mythical beasts and use esoteric powers to fight dark forces. No. We had to read A.A. Milne. And while I quite like the idea of Milne's James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree, Occult Practitioner', or Enid Blyton's Five Read Chicken Entrails in an Obscure Voodoo Ritual and Have a Jolly Good Time' now, at the time I was perfectly happy with the originals. How things change. Last week's news

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