Author : James William Hudson
Release : 2017-09-18
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The History of Adult Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of Adult Education write by James William Hudson. This book was released on 2017-09-18. The History of Adult Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from The History of Adult Education: In Which Is Comprised a Full and Complete History of the Mechanics' and Literary Institutions, Athenaeums, Philosophical, Mental and Christian Improvement Societies, Literary Unions, Schools of Design, Etc., Of Great Britain, Ireland, America, Etc., Etc Notwithstanding the gratifying reports of moral progress, which indicate the advent of an age of great intellectual improvement, we should fail in our duty, did we not point out the corrective and portentous signs of the times, with reference to the early literary associations. Those Institutions which have adhered to the views of the last half century, are exhausting their capital, and are decaying, the Philosophical Societies are imbecile, and the Mechanics' Institutions which have changed their objects in straining for popularity, by concerts, and ventriloquial entertainments, are involving themselves in debt, or they are rushing (as in Lancashire) into the other extreme of becoming mere day-schools for boys, instead of intellectual seminaries for men. The Athenaeums have been paying a heavy penalty for their club and dining prin ciples, and they are wisely repressing these features, and retaining their kitchens as separate establishments, at rentals. The indications we have enumerated are evidences of a healthy reaction. If the popularity of lectures in some districts has greatly declined, the Casinos which attracted the multitude, are equally failing, and the present moment should be taken to provide the wavering folk with the means of pleasingly improving themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.