American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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Page 102
... EXTENSION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING The acclimatization of ideas and institutions im- ported from abroad has been one of the fairly con- stant enterprises of Americans from their earliest days . One can either emphasize the origin of the ...
... EXTENSION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING The acclimatization of ideas and institutions im- ported from abroad has been one of the fairly con- stant enterprises of Americans from their earliest days . One can either emphasize the origin of the ...
Page 103
... Extension of University Teaching , 1890-1900 ( Philadelphia , 1901 ) , gives the gist of the ASEUT's rationale . It still exudes the idealism which originally inspired the effort to bring higher education to the man - on - the - street ...
... Extension of University Teaching , 1890-1900 ( Philadelphia , 1901 ) , gives the gist of the ASEUT's rationale . It still exudes the idealism which originally inspired the effort to bring higher education to the man - on - the - street ...
Page 107
... Extension reach the people it was intended for ? " We should like to believe that our answer will be final , but we know better . University Extension is meant for those for whom re- ligion is intended ; for those for whom life ...
... Extension reach the people it was intended for ? " We should like to believe that our answer will be final , but we know better . University Extension is meant for those for whom re- ligion is intended ; for those for whom life ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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