American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... given us the world , and all that in it is , with life and breath , and all things richly to enjoy . He has given all these blessings wrapt up in our capacity for an endless improvement and progress in the knowledge of our Creator , and ...
... given us the world , and all that in it is , with life and breath , and all things richly to enjoy . He has given all these blessings wrapt up in our capacity for an endless improvement and progress in the knowledge of our Creator , and ...
Page 108
... given to labor . The teaching is often intermittent and sometimes discursive . It is addressed to the many and it can not always meet special needs , but it is earnest , systematic , and painstak- ing . It must interest or it can not be ...
... given to labor . The teaching is often intermittent and sometimes discursive . It is addressed to the many and it can not always meet special needs , but it is earnest , systematic , and painstak- ing . It must interest or it can not be ...
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... given , vocational training for adults grew like the proverbial weed and became in a short time the principal constituent of adult education . The liberal studies have never yet had the good luck to be given comparably lavish support ...
... given , vocational training for adults grew like the proverbial weed and became in a short time the principal constituent of adult education . The liberal studies have never yet had the good luck to be given comparably lavish support ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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