ABSTRACT
We cannot underestimate the effect that the community has on the education that takes place in the Community Learning Center. No one has described that relationship more eloquently than Joseph K. Hart (1913, p. 9):
No child can escape his community. He may not like his parents, or the neighbors, or the ways of the world. He may groan under the processes of living, and wish he were dead. But he goes on living, and he goes on living in the community. The life of the community flows about him, foul or pure; he swims in it, drinks it, goes to sleep in it, and wakes to the new day to find it still about him. He belongs to it; it nourishes him, or starves him, or poisons him; it gives him the substance of his life. And in the long run it takes its toll of him, and all he is.
The Community Learning Center is committed to using its resources to improve the quality of life in the communities where they exist.