American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... present things in such a way as to reveal their true meaning or moral worth . Dante's Hell and Purgatory , by showing the true nature of sin , make it very unlovable , while his Paradise , by showing the true nature of righteousness ...
... present things in such a way as to reveal their true meaning or moral worth . Dante's Hell and Purgatory , by showing the true nature of sin , make it very unlovable , while his Paradise , by showing the true nature of righteousness ...
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... present day , a movement to limit book - science , and to accord a con- siderable space in intellectual education to direct con- tact with nature , so the affectional culture derivable from the fine arts should be supplemented by ...
... present day , a movement to limit book - science , and to accord a con- siderable space in intellectual education to direct con- tact with nature , so the affectional culture derivable from the fine arts should be supplemented by ...
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... present conducted- a fault which must finally prove fatal to it — is that it is too fragmentary , and presents too fragmentary a mass of facts before the hearers . Now if a scheme of lectures should be arranged which would amount to the ...
... present conducted- a fault which must finally prove fatal to it — is that it is too fragmentary , and presents too fragmentary a mass of facts before the hearers . Now if a scheme of lectures should be arranged which would amount to the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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