Article November 26, 1984 ISSUE

Are you up to date?

EVELYN M. S. DUCKETT

Keeping up to date implies much more than superficially conforming to current fashion trends, or even meeting the work deadlines or paying the bills. We have to ask ourselves if we are really matching thought to each situation that arises, really answering today's demands today.

Lagging behind usually arises from one of two misconceptions. Either we seem to have run out of whatever we rightly need—time, money, materials—or else what we have available doesn't seem to be in the right form for the particular requirement. But arrears are always basically arrears of thought.

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