American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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... understanding in some respect or other , including knowledge and understanding of the vocational skills . The characteristic focus has been on the individual man , but the characteristic context for efforts on behalf of the individual ...
... understanding in some respect or other , including knowledge and understanding of the vocational skills . The characteristic focus has been on the individual man , but the characteristic context for efforts on behalf of the individual ...
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... understanding between the classes of society , causing the poor to honor wealth won by honest ways of work , by skill and economy ; to despise wealth and winners of wealth , when greed and trickery gather the gold ; to honor knowledge ...
... understanding between the classes of society , causing the poor to honor wealth won by honest ways of work , by skill and economy ; to despise wealth and winners of wealth , when greed and trickery gather the gold ; to honor knowledge ...
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... understanding is sheer futility . My theory of democracy is this : Democracy is educa- tion . There is only one ... understanding of themselves and of their world we can have a democracy . In so far as we cannot do that we have got to ...
... understanding is sheer futility . My theory of democracy is this : Democracy is educa- tion . There is only one ... understanding of themselves and of their world we can have a democracy . In so far as we cannot do that we have got to ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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