American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... kind and affectionate manner , such advice and counsel to all that may apply , as will most effectu- ally promote their best interests through life . Should any person ever be appointed a professor or superintendent who shall be found ...
... kind and affectionate manner , such advice and counsel to all that may apply , as will most effectu- ally promote their best interests through life . Should any person ever be appointed a professor or superintendent who shall be found ...
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... kind of residential sum- mer normal school for Sunday - school teachers . This was in 1874. It was early discovered , however , that a wide variety of secular knowledge would be useful in setting forth " the mysteries of the spiritual ...
... kind of residential sum- mer normal school for Sunday - school teachers . This was in 1874. It was early discovered , however , that a wide variety of secular knowledge would be useful in setting forth " the mysteries of the spiritual ...
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... kind , simple in its provisions , limited in its requirements , accepted by adults , prosecuted with firm purpose , appealing to the imagination and to the conscience , must work miracles , intellectual , social , and religious , in ...
... kind , simple in its provisions , limited in its requirements , accepted by adults , prosecuted with firm purpose , appealing to the imagination and to the conscience , must work miracles , intellectual , social , and religious , in ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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