more formal instruction based upon and correlated with those ex- 
lubits. Like the schools, these institutions minister to juvenile 
and adolescent education, but they differ from the schools in their 
emphasis on what has come to be called * adult education.” 
The educational program of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pro- 
vides for all three classes—juveniles, adolescents, and adults—its 
adopted standard being, anything scientific or educational based 
upon plant life. 
The Challenge of Leisure—There are 144 hours 1 
i thie. six 
working days of every week. 
It is scarcely a generation ago that 
the hours of labor for persons gainfully employed were 72 | 
a week, or one half the total number. 
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The eight-hour day meant 
48 hours of work per week. On the basis of the NRA Codes, 
the hours of labor have been reduced to 35 a week, leaving 48 
hours (not including Sundays) for sleep, and OL hours a week, or 
more than ten hours a day, for meals and—for what? Conceivably 
one might loaf or play fer ten hours a day, but, fortunately, few 
human beings are so constituted that such a program makes any 
appeal. [very normal person prefers to be profitably occupied. 
A certain amount of idleness may be profitable and physiologically 
beneficial, but the new hours for labor make the old problem of 
the best use of leisure more urgent than ever before. 
This fact has now had national recognition, and Mr. Grover 
Whalen, as chairman of the President's emergency Re-employ- 
ment Committee for the City of New York, in 1933, appointed 
a special sub-committee to consider what the City might do as a 
community to promote the best use of the new hours 
of leisure. 
Schools of all grades, 
museums, botanic gardens, churches, and 
various other agencies of adult education already afford a large 
opportunity, but the work can still be expanded and improved. 
In particular, many, coming for t] 
— 
le first time into hours of leisure 
beyond the needs of recuperative recreation, need to have their at- 
tention directed to these opportunities for profitable as well < 
pleasurable use of time, and their interest it 
deepened. 
is 
1 them aroused and 
When Aristotle, two thousand years ago, said that the main 
purpose of education was the right use of leisure, only the wealthy 
few had leisure; now, apparently, the great mass of the people 
