American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... teaching ? ( 4 ) What results have thus far been accomplished in the line of teaching by correspondence ? In the statements made , special ref- erence is had to the teaching of langauges . I. What Is the Correspondence - System ? A ...
... teaching ? ( 4 ) What results have thus far been accomplished in the line of teaching by correspondence ? In the statements made , special ref- erence is had to the teaching of langauges . I. What Is the Correspondence - System ? A ...
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... Teaching , of Philadelphia , undertook to acclimatize the English idea by establishing an inde- pendent organization to manage the service , but drawing upon the universities for teachers . In spite of the very high quality of the teachers ...
... Teaching , of Philadelphia , undertook to acclimatize the English idea by establishing an inde- pendent organization to manage the service , but drawing upon the universities for teachers . In spite of the very high quality of the teachers ...
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... teaching was better than the average of University teaching - and this may be main- tained - it can be said that your Society is a People's University , teaching where it is convenient for the peo- ple to get together , in hours not ...
... teaching was better than the average of University teaching - and this may be main- tained - it can be said that your Society is a People's University , teaching where it is convenient for the peo- ple to get together , in hours not ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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