Education

This CD, with 109 books, includes books about education; education-oriented philosophy, biography, autobiography, and fiction; and books about child rearing.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

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Books about Education

• Advice to a Young Man Upon First Going to Oxford, from an uncle to his nephew by Edward Berens, 1832
• A Broader Mission for Liberal Education by J.H. Worst
• The Call of the Twentieth Century by David Stearn Jordan, 1903
• Cambridge Essays on Education edited by A.C. Benson
• The Children, Some Educational Problems by Alexander Darroch, 1907
• Craftsmanship in Teaching by William Chandler Bagley
• The Education of the Child by Ellen Key
• Education as Service by J. Krishnamenti
• Education and the Higher Life by Bishop Spalding
• The Education of Catholic Girls by Janet Erskine Stuart
• The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 by C.G. Woodson
• Elements of General Method, Based on the Princples of Herbart by Charles A. McMurry
• Game and Play for School Morale
• A Girl's Student Days and Afater by Jeannette Marks
• A Guide to Methods and Observation in ihstory by Calvin Olin Davis, 1914
• A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Susan Paxson
• Health and Education by Charles Kingsley
• Health Work in Pubic Schools by Leonard and May Ayres, 1915
• the High School Failures by Francis P. O'Brien, 1919
• 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
• The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated by John Henry Newman
• 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)
• Life in the Medieval University by Robert S. Rait, 1918
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers by Elbert Hubbard
• Louis Agassiz as a Teacher by Lane Cooper
• The Making of a Trade School by Mary Schenck Woolman, 1909
• The Measurement of Intelligence by Lewis M. Terman
• Mediaeval Universities by Arthur Norton
• Medical Essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts
• The Mind and the Brain by Alfred Binet, 1907
• Moral Principles in Education by John Dewey
• New Ideal in Education by Nicholai Velimirovic, 1916
• New Ideals in Rural Schools by George Herbert Betts, 1913
• The Oahu College at the Sandwich Islands
• On the Firing Line in Eduation by A.J. Ladd
• Principles of Teaching by Adam S. Bennion, 1921
• The Recitation by George Herbert Betts
• 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
• Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions by George S. Boutwell
• The Training of a Public Speaker by Grenville Kleiser
• The University of Michigan by Wilfred Shaw
• The Vitalized School by Francis B. Pearson
• Wage Earning and Education by R.R. Lutz
• What Is and What Might Be, a Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Edmond Holmes
• What Schools Teach and Might Teach by Franklin Bobbitt
• Why Go to College? by Alice Freeman Palmer (1855-1902)

Education-oriented Philosophy, Biography, Autobiography, Fiction, and Poetry

• 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
• De l'Education d'un Homme Sauvage [in French]
• 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
• Essay on Education and Kindred Subjects by Herbert Spencer
• Hsiao King -- Classic of Filial Piety
• Our Profession and other Poems by Jared Barhite, 1895
• The Republic by Plato
• The Science of Human Nature by William Henry Pyle, 1917
• 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 Chlid at Home or The Principles of filial Duty Familiarly Illustrated by John S.C. Abbott
• The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought by Alexander Chamberlain
• The Child Under Eight by E.R. Murray
• The Child's Day by Woods Hutchinson
• Chlidren and Their Books by James Hosmer Penniman, 1921
• 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
• The Mind of the Child, Part 2 The Development of the Intellect by W. Preyer, 1889
• The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler
• A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies
• Parent and Child, volume 3, by Mosiah Hall
• Religious Education in the Family by Henry F. Cope
• The Story of a Child by Pierre Loti, translated by Caroline Smith
• The Study of Child Life by Marion Washburne
• The Unfolding Life, a Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training by Anoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux, 1907
• What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know by John Dutton Wright, 1915
• 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