American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... promote the pecuniary as well as the intellec- tual and moral prosperity of the community . Nor is there any mystery in this uniform result from the un- erring hand of experiment . It has already been observed that young people must ...
... promote the pecuniary as well as the intellec- tual and moral prosperity of the community . Nor is there any mystery in this uniform result from the un- erring hand of experiment . It has already been observed that young people must ...
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... promote intellectual health and efficiency . College life is the vestibule to a great temple . He who crosses its pavement , and reads the inscriptions on its doors , but goes no farther , might as well never have entered the campus at ...
... promote intellectual health and efficiency . College life is the vestibule to a great temple . He who crosses its pavement , and reads the inscriptions on its doors , but goes no farther , might as well never have entered the campus at ...
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... promote , in all possible ways , the glorious broth- erhood of honesty , sympathy and culture - a culture that addresses itself to all sides of a man's nature . Under the auspices of this great Chautauqua " every- day college , " you ...
... promote , in all possible ways , the glorious broth- erhood of honesty , sympathy and culture - a culture that addresses itself to all sides of a man's nature . Under the auspices of this great Chautauqua " every- day college , " you ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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