The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties
Subtitle: From Self-Improvement to Adult Education in America, 1750-1990
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: January 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 581
ISBN-13: 9780804726801
Subjects: Higher & further education; 20th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Adult Education; Education / Teaching; Education; USA; Adult & Continuing Education
First sentence: By such terms as philosophy and literature, eighteenth-century scholars and statesmen signified the content of education beyond the rudiments.