American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... Chautauqua Assembly at Chautau qua , New York . Chautauqua was , in its heyday , one of the greatest of all American endeavors in adult education . Vincent was from his earliest days in the church keenly interested in the pedagogical ...
... Chautauqua Assembly at Chautau qua , New York . Chautauqua was , in its heyday , one of the greatest of all American endeavors in adult education . Vincent was from his earliest days in the church keenly interested in the pedagogical ...
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... Chautauqua in the summer va- cation season , all contact was by mail . What Bishop Vincent had in mind he set out in a valuable book called The Chautauqua Movement ( 1886 ) , from which the following representative passage has been ...
... Chautauqua in the summer va- cation season , all contact was by mail . What Bishop Vincent had in mind he set out in a valuable book called The Chautauqua Movement ( 1886 ) , from which the following representative passage has been ...
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... Chautauqua teaches that each of these institutions embodies and represents an idea , and that every man needs in his ... Chautauqua says therefore : Give them to the people . Hold up high standards of attainment . Show the learned their ...
... Chautauqua teaches that each of these institutions embodies and represents an idea , and that every man needs in his ... Chautauqua says therefore : Give them to the people . Hold up high standards of attainment . Show the learned their ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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