American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... increasing , and nothing can prevent this . Society does not need to concern itself with this . Its duty is to see that knowledge is assimilated . Its value to society not only increases with the number pos- sessing it , but it increases ...
... increasing , and nothing can prevent this . Society does not need to concern itself with this . Its duty is to see that knowledge is assimilated . Its value to society not only increases with the number pos- sessing it , but it increases ...
Page 117
... increase the wage - earning power of our productive workers ; to meet the increasing de- mand for trained workmen ; to offset the increased cost of living . Vocational education is therefore needed as a wise business investment for this ...
... increase the wage - earning power of our productive workers ; to meet the increasing de- mand for trained workmen ; to offset the increased cost of living . Vocational education is therefore needed as a wise business investment for this ...
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... increase social understand- ing and effectiveness is ever present in human beings— In the knowledge that adult education must seek con- tinuously new and better ways to achieve these ends and ideals- We , who share these convictions ...
... increase social understand- ing and effectiveness is ever present in human beings— In the knowledge that adult education must seek con- tinuously new and better ways to achieve these ends and ideals- We , who share these convictions ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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