Dr. Marvin Schwarz, Dr. Hy Hirschfeld, and Ed Diener discuss the Elan School for troubled adolescents in Poland, Maine. The Elan School is a therapeutic boarding school for adolescents.

Discussing the work of Thresholds, a Chicago social service organization, and interviewing Jerry Dinson and Michael Sternberg. They discuss what Thresholds provides and how it helps people with their confidence and mental health. Includes a song called "Young Paul".

Interviewing Jerry Davidson and Mike Bell about the Elan School in Maine for children with learning disabilities (Part 2).

Discussing the book "An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales" (published by Knopf) with the author, neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks.

Marjorie Kellogg writer and social worker discusses her second novel "Like The Lions Tooth". The discussion begins with a reading of the first stanza of a poem by W.B. Yeats "Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks at the Dancers". Studs and Marjorie Kellogg both read excerpts from her novel "Like the Lions Tooth", as they discuss the book.

Discussing the book, "The Myth of the Hyperactive Child: And Other Means of Child Control," and interviewing its co-author Diane Divoky.

Educators Orletta Ryan and Mary Frances Greene, and school children Karen and Lucille talk about their approaches to teaching, fighting in school, and expectations for learning.

Educators Orletta Ryan and Mary Frances Greene, along with school children Karen and Lucille speak to the different experiences they have in their roles at school; part 2.

Dr. Oliver W. Sacks discusses people and concepts presented in his book "Seeing Voices"; the interview is for the paperback release.

Discussing health hazards in work environments and environmental pollution. Interviewing Dr. Bertram Carnow and Bob and Joan Ericksen.

A round-table debate about the Montessori educational theory. Four early childhood development professionals speak of the pros and the cons of the program. Speakers include: Fay Bauling advisor at Wilson Jr. College, Dr. Urban Fleege of DePaul University, Dr. Ner Littner from the Institute of Psychoanalysis, and Hannah MacLaren, head teacher from Ancona School.

Dr. Oliver W. Sacks talks about the treatment of deaf people throughout history and the development of ASL as written in his book "Seeing Voices".

Scott and Helen Nearing, advocates of simple living, discuss their book "Continuing the good life: half a century of homesteading" and the simple lifestyle they lead. Includes excerpt from previous interview with Scott and Helen Nearing (1993882-3-1)