American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 17
Page 22
... formation , and have been very anxious for its success , I have , as a matter of course , formed my own ideas as to the causes of its decline . Not the least of these , I should say , was its unsocial character . A course of lec- tures ...
... formation , and have been very anxious for its success , I have , as a matter of course , formed my own ideas as to the causes of its decline . Not the least of these , I should say , was its unsocial character . A course of lec- tures ...
Page 25
... formation of the Boston Lyceum . I was elected one of its curators , gave several lectures during the two first seasons , and assisted in conducting some of the classes . After that time , my attention to the society was relaxed , in ...
... formation of the Boston Lyceum . I was elected one of its curators , gave several lectures during the two first seasons , and assisted in conducting some of the classes . After that time , my attention to the society was relaxed , in ...
Page 55
... forming us and making us what we are . The power of these circumstances , when rightly understood , will be found to have formed the great lines of difference that mark the characters of the people of different countries and ...
... forming us and making us what we are . The power of these circumstances , when rightly understood , will be found to have formed the great lines of difference that mark the characters of the people of different countries and ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
Copyright | |
6 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adult education Alexander Meiklejohn American apparatus appointed attend believe Benjamin Franklin better Boston Boston Athenaeum Breadwinners Colleges cation character Chautauqua Movement correspondence correspondence-student correspondence-system correspondence-work Cotton Mather courses of lectures culture democracy desire developed direct dollars educa effective effort established evil exercises fact Federal formed furnish George Ticknor give given higher education History I-Name idea improvement increase individual influence institution instruction intellectual intelligence interest John Heyle Vincent John Lowell Josiah Holbrook knowl knowledge labor large number lesson Lester Ward live Lowell Lowell Institute Lyceums means Mechanics meetings ment mind moral national grants never oral recitation persons Peter Cooper Philosophy popular present promote pupils purpose reading religion religious require schools Sidney Lanier social society Sociology spirit teachers teaching things tion tional town trustee truth understanding University Extension vocational education whole