American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... improvement of the individual man has been the focus of the effort , most of the writers here quoted have also taken into account the expected bene- fits to society that would follow from an improved man . They appear to have assumed ...
... improvement of the individual man has been the focus of the effort , most of the writers here quoted have also taken into account the expected bene- fits to society that would follow from an improved man . They appear to have assumed ...
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... improvement , or a man work- ing alone for his personal improvement . The early in- troduction of the group as the necessary unit is an in- dication that Americans very early concluded that only exceptional individuals could ...
... improvement , or a man work- ing alone for his personal improvement . The early in- troduction of the group as the necessary unit is an in- dication that Americans very early concluded that only exceptional individuals could ...
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... improvement . The letter , reproduced in greater part below , clearly reflects the quality and character of the thinking of John Lowell , Jr. , about lectures and their proper management , matters upon which he had ample opportunity for ...
... improvement . The letter , reproduced in greater part below , clearly reflects the quality and character of the thinking of John Lowell , Jr. , about lectures and their proper management , matters upon which he had ample opportunity for ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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