American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... effort and receives the proper and requisite encouragement and assistance . This general idea has been variously ex- pressed and variously associated with other ideas and systems of ideas , especially those of a religious and po ...
... effort and receives the proper and requisite encouragement and assistance . This general idea has been variously ex- pressed and variously associated with other ideas and systems of ideas , especially those of a religious and po ...
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... efforts . It has furnished speakers for other societies , engaged in various pursuits ; and I might refer to one of the members , who used frequently to speak at temperance and other meetings , with good effect . One evening , I heard ...
... efforts . It has furnished speakers for other societies , engaged in various pursuits ; and I might refer to one of the members , who used frequently to speak at temperance and other meetings , with good effect . One evening , I heard ...
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... effort , to place in your hands the title to all that piece and parcel of land bounded on the west by Fourth avenue ... efforts of youth to acquire useful knowledge , and to find and fill that place in the community where their ca ...
... effort , to place in your hands the title to all that piece and parcel of land bounded on the west by Fourth avenue ... efforts of youth to acquire useful knowledge , and to find and fill that place in the community where their ca ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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