American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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Page 45
... school , and often before it , to such severe labor , in order to procure the coarsest means of physical sub- sistence , that they have no leisure for intellectual cul- ture , and soon lose all taste for it . Everett and Ticknor 45.
... school , and often before it , to such severe labor , in order to procure the coarsest means of physical sub- sistence , that they have no leisure for intellectual cul- ture , and soon lose all taste for it . Everett and Ticknor 45.
Page 100
... labor unions have already in- terfered with the liberty not only of employers and of the public generally , but also , and still more , of the individual workman . Tyranny , socialism , and violent anarchism , with their glittering ...
... labor unions have already in- terfered with the liberty not only of employers and of the public generally , but also , and still more , of the individual workman . Tyranny , socialism , and violent anarchism , with their glittering ...
Page 108
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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