American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... popular books , tending to moral and intellectual im- provement , should be furnished in such numbers of copies that many persons , if they desired it , could be reading the same work at the same time ; in short , that not only the best ...
... popular books , tending to moral and intellectual im- provement , should be furnished in such numbers of copies that many persons , if they desired it , could be reading the same work at the same time ; in short , that not only the best ...
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... popular department . Intimation of the want of such public facilities for reading are , I think , beginning to be given . In London I notice advertisements of some of the larger circulating libraries , that they purchase one and two ...
... popular department . Intimation of the want of such public facilities for reading are , I think , beginning to be given . In London I notice advertisements of some of the larger circulating libraries , that they purchase one and two ...
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... popular religious utterances , so that the talk of the prayer - meeting will be sobered by wisdom and directed by tact , thus gaining in its influence over cultivated people , and especially over the young people of high - school and ...
... popular religious utterances , so that the talk of the prayer - meeting will be sobered by wisdom and directed by tact , thus gaining in its influence over cultivated people , and especially over the young people of high - school and ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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