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Bureau of Education India. Occasional Reports. No. 10 Adult Education (University Extra-Mural Teaching in England and Wales)

1922

The control and finaning of the Institutes fell however into the hands of the middle classes; voluntary lecturers replaced paid lecturers and through the desire to attract large classes teaching became *unsystematic and " Popular ". Such appears to the Committee which signed the 1019 Adult Education Report to be " the normal prccess of degeneration in an educational movement when the first [...] It was naturally the primary motive in the educational enthusiasm characteristic of the great demcratic movements of the early nineteenth century which had been produced by violent industrial changes and the French Revoltion and stimulated by the struggle for parliamentary reform and repeal of the Corn Laws. [...] The great Universities of Oxford and Cambridge had during the eighteenth century been appropriated by the great families and the established church and during the first half of the nineteenth century they continued to educate only the ruling classes and a sprinkling of the middle classes who after gaining admission osually looked to the aristocracy or to the established church for preferment. [...] The Workers' Educational Association however justly asserts that "freedom of thought and speech are claimed as a right by both their tutors and students " and that the universities and Local Education Authorities that co-operate with it concern themselves only with the " attendance of the students the standard.of work done and the teaching capacity of the tutor. [...] The report of the committee on which the Workers'Educational Association and its friends were strongly represented acutely analysed the weeness and defects of University Extension teaching and suggested. a connection between them and the absence of adequate support from the State.
education
Pages
107
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145470
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii J. P. Bulkeley view
Chapter I Adult Education in England and Wales from 1800-1850
1-7 J. P. Bulkeley view
Chapter II Adult Education in England and Wales from 1850 Onwards.
8-21 J. P. Bulkeley view
Chapter III University Extension Lectures
22-34 J. P. Bulkeley view
Chapter IV The Workers Educational Association and Tutorial Classes
35-57 J. P. Bulkeley view
Chapter V The influence of Universities on Adult Education in Scotland Wales the British Dominions the United States America and on the Continent of Europe
58-71 J. P. Bulkeley view
Chapter VI Possibilities of University Extra-Mural Adult Teaching in India.
72-84 J. P. Bulkeley view
Appendix A
85-90 J. P. Bulkeley view
Appendix B
91-94 J. P. Bulkeley view
Bibliography
95-95 J. P. Bulkeley view
Index
96-98 J. P. Bulkeley view

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