Education

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus


The scene of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, as this work is commonly known, is laid in the sixth year of Vespasian, 75 a.D. The commentators ar…

Home Education Series Vol. III: School Education

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Charlotte Mason


This is third volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled: School Educatio…

Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1

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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus


Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At Rome he met with great success as a teacher and…

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II

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John Locke


John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. Here are a few quotes from the book: "I see no reason to believe, that…

Sabotage

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn


Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' indu…

In the School Room

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John S. Hart


In the first place, teaching is not simply telling. A class may be told a thing twenty times over, and yet not know it. Talking to a class i…

How to Tell Stories to Children

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Sara Cone Bryant


Sarah Cone Bryant was an educator and storyteller who wrote several books on the importance of oral storytelling to children, and stories to…

Spontaneous Activity in Education

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Maria Montessori


Maria Montessori saw that children gained a sense of satisfaction through doing work of their own choosing, and that the role of the adult w…

The Reason Why

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Robert Kemp Philp


This collection of useful information on "Common Things" is put in the interesting form of "Why and Because," and compre…

Our Knowledge Box

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George Blackie


This practical guide to solving all sorts of problems includes secrets and discoveries covering the Liquor Trade, Druggists' Aids, Manufactu…

Home Education Series Vol. IV: Ourselves, Book I. Self-Knowledge

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Charlotte Mason


This is Book I of the forth volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled O…

Enquire Within Upon Everything

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Robert Kemp Philp


Enquire Within Upon Everything was a book of how to do things in domestic life It was first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Patern…

The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 1

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Charles E. Flandrau


"It has been a little over fifty years since the organization of the Territory of Minnesota, which at its birth was a very small and un…

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Volume 3

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Friedrich Nietzsche


Volume 3 of the complete works contains several short critical introductory essays, five lectures under the heading "On the Future of o…

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV

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John Locke


This is the fourth book of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. His book deals with knowledge and probability. He asks how far…

Intelligence Tests and School Reorganisation

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Lewis Terman


A collection of essays relating to the efforts to reorganise American schools to provide a more efficient and effective education system. Al…

The Citizen's Almanac

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United States Of America


This is a recording of a booklet given to new naturalized American citizens, it contains an explanation of fundamental documents, symbols an…

The Prospective Mother

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J. Morris Slemons


A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy. This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions …

Ontario Public School Geography

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Unknown


This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politica…

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