Albert Mansbridge

Albert Mansbridge, CH (10 January 1876, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England – 22 August 1952, Torquay, Devon) was one of the pioneers of adult education in Britain.

Quotes

"Ideals as Facts"

in The Way Out: Essays on the Meaning and Purpose of Adult Education (Oxford University Press: 1923)

• The principle we wish to establish, put in other words, is that the important thing in this connexion is an increased demand on the part of all kinds of people for educational facilities, which may roughly be termed non-vocational, since they are concerned really with restoring balance to a man who has, of necessity, developed to a great extent one or other of his characteristics for the purposes of his livelihood or for the satisfaction of his reasonable desires.
  • p. 69

• Experience has shown that the best organizers or directors of adult educational work are those who have at some time or another sought it for themselves.
  • p. 70

• The best education for any man or woman is that which develops the maximum strength of body and mind.
  • p. 75

• The reconstruction of society in the world depends upon the co-operation of the different interests in pursuing a line of action which leads to noble and pure ends. Of all possible ends the education of the people stands out as most clearly necessary.
  • p. 83

• Knowledge is not education; it is but the fuel burnt in a flame which comes from the heart of the world and which makes all things new. Burnt in any other way it smoulders and suffocates.
  • p. 83