After graduating from Oberlin
in 1850 ABB
joined the Lyceum Movement
and became a regular speaker in their lecture series. In the mid-nineteenth century this movement for local adult education provided a source of intellectual...
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1826: Josiah Holbrook founded the first lyceum...
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1826
Josiah Holbrook
founded the first lyceum in the USA at Millbury, Massachusetts. This was a volunteer centre for adult education, which ran meetings, discussion groups, and lectures. Other such institutions quickly sprang up, and...
