American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... correspondence ; and if a student lacking the qualities just named undertake work by cor- respondence , one of two things will happen : either he will acquire these qualities , and succeed ; or he will re- main as he was at the ...
... correspondence ; and if a student lacking the qualities just named undertake work by cor- respondence , one of two things will happen : either he will acquire these qualities , and succeed ; or he will re- main as he was at the ...
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... correspondence , brief as it has been , I can refer to hundreds of men who ... work of three or four oral recitations ; and were the number less than forty ... work seems so onerous are those of whom such work as a matter of discipline ...
... correspondence , brief as it has been , I can refer to hundreds of men who ... work of three or four oral recitations ; and were the number less than forty ... work seems so onerous are those of whom such work as a matter of discipline ...
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... correspondence- system , that it can aid this large class , who otherwise would have no help , and would make no ... work . IV . What Has Been Accomplished Thus Far in the Line of Correspondence - Work ? In the strict sense of the term ...
... correspondence- system , that it can aid this large class , who otherwise would have no help , and would make no ... work . IV . What Has Been Accomplished Thus Far in the Line of Correspondence - Work ? In the strict sense of the term ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Puritan as Adult Educator | 15 |
To Improve Schools and Diffuse | 26 |
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