New 1 . SCHOOLS FOR OLPER STUDENTS BY NATHANIEL PEFFER gut THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1926 All rights reserved COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and printed. Published September, 1926, CONTENTS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1 II THE OPEN FORUM 9 III THE INSTITUTE 30 IV INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS 44 V NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Ill VI CORPORATION EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS . . . . 174 VII MUSEUMS OF ART AND SCIENCE 187 VIII WORKERS EDUCATION 203 IX CONCLUSION 244 NEW SCHOOLS FOR OLDER STUDENTS NEW SCHOOLS FOR OLDER STUDENTS CHAPTER I ...
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New 1 . SCHOOLS FOR OLPER STUDENTS BY NATHANIEL PEFFER gut THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1926 All rights reserved COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and printed. Published September, 1926, CONTENTS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1 II THE OPEN FORUM 9 III THE INSTITUTE 30 IV INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS 44 V NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Ill VI CORPORATION EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS . . . . 174 VII MUSEUMS OF ART AND SCIENCE 187 VIII WORKERS EDUCATION 203 IX CONCLUSION 244 NEW SCHOOLS FOR OLDER STUDENTS NEW SCHOOLS FOR OLDER STUDENTS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION THIS volume is one of a series based on studies made for the Carnegie Corporation of New York and should be read in connection with the companion volumes or with them in mind if adult education in the United States is to be visualized as a whole. The others treat of university extension, chautauquas and lyeeums, cor respondence schools and the varied and numerous edu cational agencies for youths in the intermediate period between leaving school and finding themselves in their life work yet another treats of the public library, most widespread and far-reaching of all the forms of adult education in the United States. The present volume deals with all that does not fall within those broad classi fications, with the many individual, independent and less highly organized enterprises that have sprung up every where in recent years with everything else, in fact. This is a report rather than a book. It is not a unity or an organized whole it is scarcely a continuity. It cannot be. The experiments here described are unre lated and unconnected. They cannot be unified and fitted into a neat logical structure. Each is an experi-X 2 NEW SCHOOLS FOR OLDER STUDENTS ment ineducation and works with adults. The problems which arise in attempting to teach adults are common to all of them nothing else is. All that can properly be at tempted here, then, is to set down one by one such ex periments as are distinctive in kind without being unrep resentative of the whole, to describe them, interpret them, point out those aspects common to all of them and therefrom draw such conclusions as are pertinent to adult education in general. What is adult education For one thing, it is a con tradiction in terms. Adult, education what relation can they have Education is something that happens to one when one is young. After that one has it or not as the case may be. Second, adult education is a subject of acrimonious controversy, as he learns who asks adult educators to define it. Definitions are as many as there are educators, each educator ready to stand at Arma geddon and battle to the death for the semi-colon in his own. Third, adult education is something that every body is interested in for somebody else for immigrants and Southern mountain whites and the poor and the working class. But never for oneself. Why oneself Has one not a bachelors degree Numerous as the din ing halls in which they may have their luncheons with speeches are the organizations dedicated to the increase or improvement in educational facilities for children 1 or OL f f apprentices or Negrdes or foreign-born or sub-normals, and rare almost beyond discovery the organization dedicated to the increase and improvement in the edu cation of its own members. For the purpose of this book adult education will be taken as something not involving pedagogical or meta physical controversy for identification.Precise scien tific definition may well wait until there is more adult education, when its nature can be definitively determined INTRODUCTION 3 by the event. Adult education is here taken, then, to be education outside the usual formal channels for men and women engaged in the ordinary pursuits of life or, simpler, as the effort of grown persons to go on learning while earning a living. And an adult is one who has finished his formal preparatory education, whether it be school only or school and high school and university, and gone to work...
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