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- Title
JOSIAH HOLBROOK: FEEDING THE PASSION FOR SELF-HELP.
- Authors
Weaver II, Richard L.
- Abstract
Uniquely American in its breadth of appeal and in its focus on broad, practical, adult self-education, the lyceum movement was one of the most comprehensive and far-reaching movements in America from 1830 to 1850, and a significant institution in the American tradition, of adult education. Josiah Holbrook, father of the American lyceum, played an important role in the success of the movement. Not only did he conceive and promote the idea, but he also perceived the readiness of Americans for self-improvement and adapted to this readiness.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ADULT education; LYCEUMS; UNITED States education system; SELF-actualization (Psychology); PREPAREDNESS
- Publication
Communication Quarterly, 1976, Vol 24, Issue 4, p10
- ISSN
0146-3373
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/01463377609369232