American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... hand of experiment . It has already been observed that young people must have occasions for social enjoy- ment and for recreation ; and every one is familiar with the fact that the least useful and most pernicious amuse- ments are the ...
... hand of experiment . It has already been observed that young people must have occasions for social enjoy- ment and for recreation ; and every one is familiar with the fact that the least useful and most pernicious amuse- ments are the ...
Page 67
... hands ; that trains people who work with their hands , to work also with their brains , -to think in their work , to think for their work , and to make other people work and think . A plan of this kind , simple in its provisions ...
... hands ; that trains people who work with their hands , to work also with their brains , -to think in their work , to think for their work , and to make other people work and think . A plan of this kind , simple in its provisions ...
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... hand he maintained a " Summer School of the Cultural Sciences " at his farm in the Adirondack Mountains which was chiefly attended by members of the intelligentsia ( and which was lovingly described by William James in an essay now ...
... hand he maintained a " Summer School of the Cultural Sciences " at his farm in the Adirondack Mountains which was chiefly attended by members of the intelligentsia ( and which was lovingly described by William James in an essay now ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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