Lindeman

1. ADLT 671
Session 3, Summer 2017
Historical Concepts that
Influence Adult Learning Today

2. The Era in Which
Lindeman Lived

3. The 1920s…
• WWI ended Nov. 1918
• 1920 – American women win the right to
vote
• Hitler named leader of Nazi party 1921
(chancellor 1933)
• Immigration wave from Eastern Europe
• Labor-management disputes, strikes

4. 1926
• RCA, General Electric, and Westinghouse establish a
national radio network called NBC
• The Book-of-the-Month Club is founded and begins to
sell books at reduced prices by mail and on a
subscription basis
• Martha Graham, the American pioneer of the modern-
dance, gives her first New York performance, which
features 18 barefoot, evocatively costumed dancers
• Robert Goddard fires the first liquid fuel rocket

5. 1926
• Auto antifreeze allows people to use cars year-round.
• Unemployment: 1.8%
• Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
• Chiang Kai-Shek becomes leader of China's
revolutionary party following the 1925 death of Sun
Yat-sen.
• Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett fly from
Spitsbergen to the North Pole and back.

6. Individual Thoughts
What struck you in particular about The
Meaning of Adult Education?
Take a a couple of minutes to skim
through the Lindeman chapters you
read.
What quotations from Lindeman
did you find particularly meaningful or
applicable today?