Workers' Education and the Public Libraries

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Workers' education bureau of America, 1925 - Libraries - 19 pages
 

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Page 10 - Helen will come upon the wall to see. Then we shall rust in shade, or shine in strife, And fluctuate 'twixt blind hopes and blind despairs, And fancy that we put forth all our life, And never know how with the soul it fares. Still doth the soul, from its lone fastness high, Upon our life a ruling effluence send. And when it fails, fight as we will, we die ; And while it lasts, we cannot wholly end.
Page 17 - But what I do mourn over is, that the lamp of his soul should go out; that no ray of heavenly, or even of earthly knowledge, should visit him; but only, in the haggard darkness, like two spectres, fear and indignation bear him company. Alas, while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated!
Page 17 - It is not because of his toils that I lament for the poor. We must all toil, or steal (howsoever we name our stealing), which is worse ; no faithful workman finds his task a pastime. The poor is hungry and athirst, but for him also there is food and drink ; he is heavy-laden and weary, but for him also the heavens send sleep, and of the deepest. In his smoky cribs, a clear, dewy heaven of rest envelops him, and fitful glitterings of cloudskirted dreams.
Page 4 - ... education movement in the United States, to stimulate an interest in education among the workers of this country, to assist in establishment of study classes in the different localities, to unify the separate experiments on American workers' education, and give them the strength that comes from a consciousness of co-operative effort.
Page 18 - The Workers' Bookshelf A series of modern, constructive books on Labor, Science, and Literature for Men and Women of the Labor Movement, published in co-operation with the Doran Company.
Page 19 - An Outline of the Social and Political History of the United States. Price, lOc. By HJ Carman. 5. An Outline of the British Labour Movement. Price, lOc. By GDH Cole. (In press) 6. Workers
Page 19 - TRADE UNION COLLEGES, STUDY CLASSES, EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEES, AFFILIATED STATE AND LOCAL UNIONS AND OTHER WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES IN THE UNITED STATES.
Page 17 - ... of learning, a broad cooperative venture in experimentation must be initiated. Library organizations must join hands with all other agencies concerned with the problems of adult education in a joint enterprise of finding out how books and journals may be most effectively used as releases to the human mind.
Page 3 - The true university of these days is a collection of good books.
Page 3 - role of the public library in the field of adult education," observing that it is "still experiencing growing pains

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