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VOLUME I Contents

Acknowledgements
Lynchburg College Symposium Readings,
Senior Symposium, and the LCSR Program
Introduction to Volume 1

Plato (360 B.C. E.)
The Republic, Book VII
Aristotle (350 B.C.E.)
Politics, Books VII and VIII
Michel de Montaigne (1580-1590)
Essays, Chapter XXV, "Of the Education of Children"
John Locke (1693)
Some Thoughts concerning Education
Mary Astell (1694)
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest
Daniel Defoe (1697)
Essay Upon Projects, An Academy for Women
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)
Émile
Thomas Jefferson (1767-1818)
"[Letter] to Bernard Moore"
Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIV,
Report to the Legislature of Virginia Relative to the University of Virginia, excerpt
Heinrich Pestalozzi (1776)
"A Letter on the education of Poor Country Children"
Horace Mann (1848)
Twelfth Annual Report of the Board of Education
Charles Dickens (1854)
Hard Times
Booker T. Washington (1900)
The Education of the Negro
W.E.B. DuBois (1903, 1935)
The Souls of Black Folk
"Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?"
Maria Montessori (1912)
The Montessori Method
Alfred North Whitehead (1916)
"The Aims of Education"
Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan (1920)
The Story of My Life
Carter G. Woodson (1933)
The Mis-Education of the Negro
John Dewey (1935)
Experience & Education
Gilbert Highet (1950)
The Art of Teaching
Stringfellow Barr (1955)
"Liberal Education: A Common Adventure"
Paulo Freire (1968)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed