Know: Journal of Lifelong Learning

Literacyworks introduces the first issue of Know:
The Journal of Lifelong Learning
Business Review India: 9.26.2012 - PRNewswire-USNewswire

Paul Heavenridge, Executive Director of Literacyworks, a nationally recognized nonprofit providing literacy resources to adult and family education programs, announced today the launching of the organization's journal of lifelong learning, Know.

Heavenridge says: "We instinctively want to learn the why of something. It's that pull of the unknown that compels us. We ask questions of ourselves. It's what makes us human. Aristotle perhaps said it best when he noted 'People by nature desire to know.' We have seen in our own lives that given freedom, the proper education, access, space, and encouragement, our species is capable of wondrous things. Kids become gloriously creative, teens become masters of subjects that amaze, adults build technologies that seem like magic, and seniors keep reinventing themselves."

Know is a quarterly online journal that offers a compelling mix of reporting, commentary, and interviews related to lifelong learning. Know doesn't indoctrinate readers with the value of literacy in its varied forms. Instead, it demonstrates the lasting significance of knowledge acquisition with content that is equally engaging and illuminating, promoting learning as the ultimate tool for self-advocacy.

For this first issue, Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley talks about strategies for filling the blank page; Steve Bryson, lead mathematician of the NASA AMES Kepler mission, switches discipline to muse on why the Higgs Particle is important; Stanford University Professor of History Ian Morris asks what happens when societies stop asking questions, author Frances French pays tribute to his old boss Sally Ride, and Jill Tarter, outgoing Director of the SETI Institute, examines the probability of intelligent extraterrestrial life.