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Eduard C. Lindeman on Education

1885–1953 United States

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Adult education more accurately defined begins where vocational education leaves off. Its purpose is to put meaning into the whole of life.

The Meaning of Adult Education (1926)

Education is life—not a mere preparation for an unknown kind of future living. Consequently all static concepts of education which relegate the learning process to the period of youth are abandoned. The whole of life is learning, therefore education can have no endings.

The Meaning of Adult Education (1926)

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