PLAINFIELD, Vt., Dec. 24 - Five adult schools, each of from two to four days' duration, will be conducted at Goddard College during January: a school of agriculture, a school of handicraft, a school of Vermont cooperatives, a ski school and a conference on "Fitting the College to the Needs of Democracy".

Dr. William H. Kilpatrick, professor emeritus of Teachers College, Columbia University, will be chairman of the educational conference, assisted by Walter C. Eells, executive secretary, American Association of Junior Colleges; Hans Froelicher Jr., head master of the Park School, Baltimore; Stephen H. Fritchman, executive director of the Unitarian Youth Commision, Boston; A.W. Snedeker, director of the Vermont Child Guidance Clinic; Frederick L. Redefer, executive secretary of the Progressive Education Association, and others.