American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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Page 46
... reading , to create an appetite for it , which the schools often fail to do , and then to adapt these means to its gratification . That an appetite for reading can be very widely excited is plain , from what the cheap publica- tions of ...
... reading , to create an appetite for it , which the schools often fail to do , and then to adapt these means to its gratification . That an appetite for reading can be very widely excited is plain , from what the cheap publica- tions of ...
Page 95
... reading Macbeth ; indecision , after reading Hamlet , and so on ! Who can intelligently look at the Laocoön group with- out hating sensual vice ; or at the Praxitelean Hermes without loving the spiritual sympathy that longs to educate ...
... reading Macbeth ; indecision , after reading Hamlet , and so on ! Who can intelligently look at the Laocoön group with- out hating sensual vice ; or at the Praxitelean Hermes without loving the spiritual sympathy that longs to educate ...
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... reading . We are trying to get reading done in a society that does not read . And my own opinion is that the life of a democracy , in one of its definitions at least , could be stated in these terms : A people can be a democracy if it ...
... reading . We are trying to get reading done in a society that does not read . And my own opinion is that the life of a democracy , in one of its definitions at least , could be stated in these terms : A people can be a democracy if it ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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