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Contents

 
EDUCATION AND THE COMMONWEALTH
Plato, The Republic
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Politics
Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Bernard Moore Notes on the State of Virginia Report on the University of Virginia
Horace Mann, Twelfth Annual Report to the Board of Education
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar
Robert M, Hutchins, Preface to An Introduction to the Great Books
THE GREAT TRADITION
John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University
Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education
M.E. de Montaigne, Of the Institution and Education-of Children
John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pile, or Education
John Ruskin, Sesame: Of Kings' Treasuries
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Stringfellow Barr, Liberal Education: A Common Adventure
SPECIAL PROBLEMS
Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
Anne Sullivan, Notes on the Education of Helen Keller
Booker T. Washington, Education of the Negro
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?
Carter Godwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro
David P. Page, Theory and Practice of Teaching
NEW PERSPECTIVES
Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method
John Dewey, Experience and Education
B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Jean Piaget, Six Psychological Studies
James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times
Mortimer J. Adler, The Paideia Proposa
Gilbert Highet, The Art of Teaching
John M. Turner, Rhythm of the Railroad