Discussing education and alternative schools with Theo Buergin and Hans A. Schieser. They discuss educators, philosophers, and psychologists such as Rudolf Steiner, Maria Montessori, and Jean Piaget.

Terkel presents a musical performance of the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus

Discussing the book "The Broken Cord" (published by Harper & Row) with the author Michael Dorris.

Interviewing author and child psychiatrist Dr. Robert Coles.

Discussing the book "How it feels when a parent dies" with the author Jill Krementz.

Shirley Bryant, Nancy Fisher, and Nicole Mills discuss how a new sex education based in the importance of feelings and the use of contraception.

Hendaseyd Buchanan, a bookseller, discusses his bookshop, customers, and interests.

Mrs. John B. Allen recalls stories from Jane Addams' "The Long Road of Woman's Memory" and "Twenty Years at Hull House". She also recounts her own personal stories of Thanksgiving and Christmas at Hull House as well as her own volunteer service with The Immigrants Protective League. Jane Addams advocated for shorter hours, child labor laws, women's suffrage, youth, and peace. She prejudged no one and saw individuals as having various needs, desires, and each with their own gifts. She found reassurance that life is good through the spirit of youth. This interview ends at 45:03.

John Peter Jones discusses English youth, the working class, and his book, "The Feather Pluckers."