Education

This CD, with 60 books, includes books about education; education-oriented philosophy, biography, autobiography, and fiction; and books about child rearing.

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Table of Contents

Books about Education

• The Call of the Twentieth Century by David Stearn Jordan, 1903
• Cambridge Essays on Education edited by A.C. Benson
• The Education of the Child by Ellen Key
• Education as Service by J. Krishnamenti
• The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 by C.G. Woodson
• The History of Education by Elwood Chubberly
• The History of University Education in Maryland by Bernard Steiner, 1891
• How to Teach by George Drayton Strager and Naomi Norseworthy
• Jukes-Edwards: a Study in Education and Heredity by A.E. Winship, 1900
• Lessons for Would-Be Principals -- Case Studies from High School Administration (The doctoral dissertation "Human Relations in Secondary School Administration: Case Episodes") by Richard Warren Seltzer, Sr. (.html document)
• Louis Agassiz as a Teacher by Lane Cooper
• Mediaeval Universities by Arthur Norton
• Medical Essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• New Ideal in Education by Nicholai Velimirovic, 1916
• The Reconstructed School by Francis Pearson
• Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis Pearson
• Science and Education, Essays by Thomas Huxley
• The Scholemaster by Roger Ascham (1515-1568)
• The Teacher by Jacob Abbott, 1873
• The Teaching of History by Ernest Hartwell, 1913
• What Schools Teach and Might Teach by Franklin Bobbitt
• Why Go to College? by Alice Freeman Palmer (1855-1902)

Education-oriented Philosophy, Biography, Autobiography, and Fiction

• Analects of Confucius
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• The Book of the Courtier by Count Baldessar Castilio, translated to English by Sir Thomas Hoby
• Cyropaedia: the Educatoin of Cyrus by Xenophon, translated by Henry Dakyns
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Democracy and Education by John Dewey
• Discourse on the Method by Rene Descartes
• The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
• Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Translated by Barbara Foxley
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
• Of Education by John Milton (1608-1674)
• An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding by John Locke
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Hsiao King -- Classic of Filial Piety
• The Republic by Plato
• The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov,  English translation
• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
• Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
• Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
• A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Youth by Leo Tolstory, translated C.J. Hogarth

Child Development and Rearing

• Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Pye Henry Chavasse
• American Child by Elizabeth McCracken, 1913
• The Care and Feeding of Children by L. Emmett Holt
• The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought by Alexander Chamberlain
• The Child Under Eight by E.R. Murray
• Children's Rights -- a Book of Nursery Logic by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1892
• The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Headland
• Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young by Jacob Abbott
• The Infant System for Developing the Intellectural and Moral Powers of All Children from One to Seven Years of Age by Samuel Wilderspin, 1852
• Lecture on Physical Development and Its Relation to Mental and Spiritual Development by S.R. Calthrop
• The Maternal Management of Children in Health and Disease by Thomas Bull, 1840
• The Meaning of Infancy by John Fiske
• Parent and Child, volume 3, by Mosiah Hall
• The Story of a Child by Pierre Loti, translated by Caroline Smith
• The Study of Child Life by Marion Washburne
• The Young Mother or Management of Children in Regard to Health by William Alcott (1789-1859), 1836
• Your Child Today and Tomorrow by Sidonie Matzner Gruenberg
• Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall

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