American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... correspondence ? In the statements made , special ref- erence is had to the teaching of langauges . I. What Is the Correspondence - System ? A brief explanation of the plan of study by corre- spondence is first in order . 1. An ...
... correspondence ? In the statements made , special ref- erence is had to the teaching of langauges . I. What Is the Correspondence - System ? A brief explanation of the plan of study by corre- spondence is first in order . 1. An ...
Page 83
... correspondence - school knows more of the subject treated in those lessons , and knows it better , than the student who has covered the same ground in the class - room . 2. The day is coming when the work done by cor- respondence will ...
... correspondence - school knows more of the subject treated in those lessons , and knows it better , than the student who has covered the same ground in the class - room . 2. The day is coming when the work done by cor- respondence will ...
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... correspondence courses are usually extra chores they agree to add to their regular teaching load in order to supplement their inadequate incomes . In this frame of mind , many of them candidly get by with as little expenditure of energy ...
... correspondence courses are usually extra chores they agree to add to their regular teaching load in order to supplement their inadequate incomes . In this frame of mind , many of them candidly get by with as little expenditure of energy ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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