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PUBLIC SCHOOL ADULT EDUCATION IN SELECTED NEBRASKA SCHOOLS
Abstract
Adult education and the public schools from their inception have been closely allied forces and have complemented each other during their emergence, growth, and development. There is general agreement among those who have made extensive studies of the history and development of the public school adult education movement that the American system of free public education, as we know it, isthe result of one of the most significant and dynamic adventures in adult education in our educational history. Reference is made to the early educators who strongly believed in free public education for all and who were confronted with the task of educating the adult population of their day to the significance and importance of a free educational system for all. It is further noted that the AmericanLyceum, an early adult education movement, supported the public school movement and had as one of its major stated objectives, "to stimulate and support the movement for the establishment of tax supported common schools.
Subject Area
Adult education|Continuing education|Adult education
Recommended Citation
LIGHTBODY, JAMES EDGAR, "PUBLIC SCHOOL ADULT EDUCATION IN SELECTED NEBRASKA SCHOOLS" (1967). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI6709833.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI6709833