June is Seniors’ month and the first of the baby boomers are becoming seniors. Moses Znaimer has renamed them Zoomers, reflecting the fact that one of the most active generations in history will continue its zest for life into their “third age”, as others call it.

In the May/June 2010 issue of Learning Curves, we noted that “the aging baby boomers have been the largest age cohort to move through society in the last hundred years, and as they dominated other aspects of society, their education needs dominated the education system.”

In our December 2001 issue, the late Dr. Alan Thomas wrote an article titled “A Canadian Century of Adult Education.” He traced the response of adult education to societal needs over the 1900’s. In the early part of the 1900’s, funding for adult education often came under citizenship funding. It was the hey day o