Founders of organizations that carried education to working adults and older learners, including the Workers' Educational Association in Britain, the Canadian Frontier College and Elderhostel. A person belongs here when the cited article calls the person a pioneer of adult education or names an adult education organization the person founded. It excludes founders of schools for children, who sit in their other groups. Their organizations took classes to workplaces, camps and retirement communities.
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Albert Mansbridge (Wikipedia)
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Albert Mansbridge, CH (10 January 1876, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, 22 August 1952, Torquay, Devon) was an English educator who was one of the pioneers of adult education in Britain.
Billy Hughes (educationist) (Wikipedia)
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Herbert Delauney Hughes (7 September 1914-15 November 1995), known as Billy Hughes, was a British adult educationist and Labour Party politician.
Alfred Fitzpatrick (Wikipedia)
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He founded Frontier College in 1899, the oldest adult education institution in Canada.
David Bianco (educator) (Wikipedia)
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David Bianco (July 25, 1939, January 11, 2016) was the co-founder of Elderhostel, a not-for-profit organization established in the United States in 1975, which offers adults lifelong learning opportunities across North America and throughout the world.
Frances Mansbridge (Wikipedia)
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Frances Jane Mansbridge (née Pringle; 19 September 1875-24 July 1958) was a British educationist who co-founded the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) with her husband, Albert Mansbridge (1876-1952).
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