Workers' Education Association shows workers' path to higher learning
England's Workers' Educational Association has graduated nearly 10,000 industry workers in liberal courses, proving workers can pursue advanced study while employed. The movement, supported by unions and government, aims to raise democratic maturity and industrial efficiency without removing workers from the shop.
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England
Workers’ Educational Association
United States Department of Labor
Senate
Department of the Interior
Bolshevik
Russia
George Bernard Shaw
Great Britain
British Isles
W. BE. A
Labor Movement
Khowlenege
W. FB. A
Educational Association
Universities’ Educational Association
Fogland
Oxford
Europe
Tempocracy
G. D. H. Cole
Harpur Street
Theobald's Road
London
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Dominions
Canada
Australia
Boards of Education
Trades Councils
University College
National Board of Education
His Majesty
L. T. Hobhouse
Ruskin College
Central Labor College
South Wales Miners’ Federation
National Union of Railwaymen
Smith
Tives
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Bes
Glasgow
Clyde
America
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
New York City
Io Boston
Central Labor Union
Harvard University
Boston
Carlyles Lament and a Modern Vision on Human Power
A compressed quotation from Carlyle and William Temple contrasts the Poor's toil and ignorance with a hopeful modern vision. It invokes the tragedy of wasted capacity and the dream of universal education, fellowship, and humane development through shared human service.
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Thomas Carlyle
William Temple
Workers’ Educational Association of Great Britain
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