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... Scotland ... ... ... : : ... ... : ... : ... 177 Conclusion ... ... : : ... : : ... ... 177 APPENDIX I. A Survey of Adult Education - Contents Part I. Adult Education in Great Britain ... Part II . Wartime Developments ... Part III ...
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... History to starving stocking - makers . Chartist Churches were established at Birmingham , at Bath , and in parts of 1 Hovell , The Chartist Movement , pp . 206-7 1 Scotland , and conducted classes for children and young 19.
... History to starving stocking - makers . Chartist Churches were established at Birmingham , at Bath , and in parts of 1 Hovell , The Chartist Movement , pp . 206-7 1 Scotland , and conducted classes for children and young 19.
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Great Britain. Ministry of Reconstruction. Adult Education Committee. 1 Scotland , and conducted classes for children and young men . At Deptford there was a " Working - men's Church " whose members were said to study the New Testament ...
Great Britain. Ministry of Reconstruction. Adult Education Committee. 1 Scotland , and conducted classes for children and young men . At Deptford there was a " Working - men's Church " whose members were said to study the New Testament ...
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... Scotland . But prior to the war this type of university extension work was carried on , in one form or another , by all the universities in England and Wales . 37. The present character and prospects of the organization for main ...
... Scotland . But prior to the war this type of university extension work was carried on , in one form or another , by all the universities in England and Wales . 37. The present character and prospects of the organization for main ...
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... Scotland and Wales , with their distinctive characteristics , we have devoted separate sections to them . Similarly , we have found it necessary to give separate consideration to rural education and education amongst women . 53. It is ...
... Scotland and Wales , with their distinctive characteristics , we have devoted separate sections to them . Similarly , we have found it necessary to give separate consideration to rural education and education amongst women . 53. It is ...
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adult classes adult education adult schools adult students Army arranged assistance attendance Board of Education branches carried centres Chartism co-operation Co-operative considerable number continuous demand desire districts economic educa Education Authorities Education in Wales Educational Association elementary engaged established experience extra-mural facilities given grant groups higher education important increased industrial institutions instruction intellectual interest intra-mural Joint Committee knowledge Labour College large number libraries literature Local Education Authorities London meet Men's College ment methods Morley College movement needs number of students offer one-year classes opportunities Oxford political possible present problems regard rural Ruskin College scheme Scotland Scottish Education Department Settlement social Society South Wales Staffordshire study circles subjects summer schools teachers teaching technical tion towns trade union university extension lectures University Joint university tutorial classes village vocational voluntary bodies voluntary organisations Welsh women Workers Yorkshire
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Page 339 - 21 Macmillan t British Red cross soc. Reports by the joint war committee and the joint war finance committee of the British Red cross society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem...
Page 26 - There had been established, just at that time, in these four towns, an association calling itself the North of England Council for promoting the Higher Education of Women.
Page 5 - IS THAT ADULT EDUCATION MUST NOT BE REGARDED AS A LUXURY FOR A FEW EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS HERE AND THERE, NOR AS A THING WHICH CONCERNS ONLY A SHORT SPAN OF EARLY MANHOOD, BUT THAT ADULT EDUCATION IS A PERMANENT NATIONAL NECESSITY, AN" INSEPARABLE ASPECT OF CITIZENSHIP, AND THEREFORE SHOULD BE BOTH UNIVERSAL AND LIFELONG.
Page 18 - Any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened, may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by the application of proper means; which means are to a great extent at the command and under the control of those who have influence in the affairs of men.
Page 29 - In our old Chartist time, it is true, Lancashire working men were in rags by thousands ; and many of them lacked food. But their intelligence was demonstrated wherever you went. You would see them in groups discussing the great doctrine of political justice ... or they were in earnest dispute respecting the teachings of socialism. Now, you will see no such groups in Lancashire. But you will hear welldressed working men talking...
Page 4 - That the main purpose of education is to fit a man for life, and therefore in a civilised community to fit him for his place as a member of that community. 2. That the family, the school, the trade union or profession, the local town or district, are successive stages which...
Page 14 - Institution is formed for the purpose of enabling Mechanics and Artisans, of whatever trade they may be, to become acquainted with such branches of science as are of practical application in the exercise of that trade; that they may possess a more thorough knowledge of their business, acquire a greater degree of skill in the practice of it, and be qualified to make improvements and even new inventions in the Arts which they respectively profess.
Page 10 - In 1811 the National Society for Educating the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church was founded; in 1814 the British and Foreign School Society for non-denominational Biblereading.
Page 18 - My desire for information was, however, too strong to be turned aside, and often have I been sent away from a bookstall when the owner became offended at my standing reading, which I used to do until I was turned away. ... I used to borrow books from a man who kept a small shop in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, leaving a small sum as a deposit...