American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... desire to accomplish by the estab- lishment of an institution devoted to the advancement of science and art , is to open the volume of nature by the light of truth - so unveiling the laws and methods of Deity , that the young may see ...
... desire to accomplish by the estab- lishment of an institution devoted to the advancement of science and art , is to open the volume of nature by the light of truth - so unveiling the laws and methods of Deity , that the young may see ...
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... desire is to make this building and institution contribute in every way possible to unite all in one common effort to improve each and every human being , seeing that we are bound up in one common destiny and by the laws of our being ...
... desire is to make this building and institution contribute in every way possible to unite all in one common effort to improve each and every human being , seeing that we are bound up in one common destiny and by the laws of our being ...
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... desire , also , that the students shall have the use of one of the large rooms ( to be assigned by the trustees ) for the purpose of useful debate . I desire and deem it best to direct that all these lectures and debates shall be ...
... desire , also , that the students shall have the use of one of the large rooms ( to be assigned by the trustees ) for the purpose of useful debate . I desire and deem it best to direct that all these lectures and debates shall be ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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