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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Signed and dated by author atop front free endpaper. "All sorts of things are called education. What is it? This book raises the deepest questions about human life. It deals with the growing interest of people in education as a gospel of self-improvement and social salvation. It undertakes to interpret education as a possible way of thinking about things and of daily living, and to help us determine what an educated person really is." - front flap. "By far the best and most alluring picture I know of what it would be to be grown up. It is a philosophy of life, and blessed are they who adopt it." - James Harvey Robinson. "Everett Dean Martin (1880-1941) was an American minister, writer, journalist, instructor, lecturer, social psychologist, social philosophyer, and an advocate of adult education." - Wikipedia. In addition to a copyright date of 1926, the letters BW appear in tiny font upon copyright page, possibly indicating this example to be a reprint. xi, [3], 319 p. Clean, tight and unmarked with respectful wear. Moderate tanning to contents. Dust jacket flaps laid-in. A special example of this enduring work. ; 1926; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Signed and warmy inscribed by Martin atop front free endpaper. "In this, his first nationally reviewed book, Martin posed what he saw as the dilemma of the modern age: a technological information revolution that made it possible, in the absence of an adequate educational system, to influence ignorant men and women with propaganda and half-truths. Unscrupulous demagogues, corrupt polliticians, manipulative advertisers, and revolutionary ideologues found ready-made audiences when they appealed to the baser instincts." - Wikipedia. "The problem of the crowd is really concerned with the things of the mind. And if I am correct in my thesis that there is a necessary connection between crowd-thinking and the various traditional systems of intellectualist, absolutist, and rationalist philosophy, the way out must be through the formation of some such habits of thinking as I have suggested." - Foreword. "Everett Dean Martin (1880-1941) was an American minister, writer, journalist, lecturer, social psychologist and social philosopher best known for his advocacy of the liberal education of adults, which he saw as an antidote to both the irrationality of the crowd and the power of propaganda. In his heyday he was regarded as one of the leading figures in adult education in the United States." - Wikipedia. Edward L. Bernays (aka The Father of Spin) referenced this work in his "Crystallizing Public Opinion" on page 101. [6], 312 pp. Index. Unmarked with average wear to navy cloth. Binding sound. No dust jacket. A quality signed example. ; 8vo; Signed by Author.