American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Puritan as Adult Educator | 15 |
To Improve Schools and Diffuse | 26 |
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