Lindeman

1. ADLT 671
Session 2, Spring 2019
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?

7. 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?