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The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways

Read by Jim Locke


Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris


This work according to the subtitle is "a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges." It describes land, locales, hou…

Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 2

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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…

The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent and Other Essays

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John Erskine


In different ways the four essays set forth one theme—the moral use to which intelligence might be put, in rendering our admirations and our…

The Elements of Conchology

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William Ruschenberger


The fifth of the Series of First Books of Natural History, embraces that branch of our subject which treats of the Mollusca, or soft animals…

The Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke

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Leonard Cox


This text is a reprint of the first English-language book on rhetoric, including an introduction and notes from Frederic Ives Carpenter of t…

Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume 1: Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand G…

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Lewis Terman


It should go without saying that a nation's resources of intellectual talent are among the most precious it will ever have. The study of the…

Rousseau and Education According to Nature

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Thomas Davidson


In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…

A Plea for Ragged Schools; or, Prevention Better than Cure

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Thomas Guthrie


The Reverend Thomas Guthrie was first introduced to the idea of ragged schools in 1841, while acting as the Parish Minister of St. John's Ch…

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

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Elizabeth Blackwell


A fascinating account of the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. She writes of her struggles in being accepted to …

A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Version 2)

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Lucy Larcom


What was growing up like for a seaside country girl in 1800’s New England -- her expectations, occupations, education, and opportunities? Wh…

Annual Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education

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Horace Mann


Horace Mann is called The Father of the Common School and was one of the first progressive thinkers on education in the United States. His A…

The Seven Laws of Teaching

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John Milton Gregory


If we analyze carefully a full and perfect act of teaching, we shall find it involves seven distinct elements, or parties and parts—two acto…

A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments

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Unknown


This collection of projects and experiments was submitted by Rufus Tuttle, following an Act of Congress promoting education and learning. Th…

Who will Pick up Elijah's Mantle?


Justus Musinguzi


The Church is facing a very serious crisis. This crisis is best demonstrated by the pictures of the best performing students in this country…

Shakespeare - Othello In Offaly


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Othello In Offaly -   From 6 January 2008 Four Episodes RTÉ Radio 1   Alan Stanford explores Shakespeare's text with studen…

Education CD 01-08 By Ellen G White Read By Eric Martin (1411-44)



Education CD 01-08 By Ellen G White Read By Eric Martin (1411-44)

H.M.I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H.M. Inspectors of Schools

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Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kinnersley


Sneyd-Kinnersley was an Inspector of Schools in a period when regulations were rapidly changing and access to free public education was expa…

America Becomes A World Power


SANWAL. WBGO Collection


The  Standard School Broadcast [Chevron]  was an educational radio program that went on the air in 1928 to promote history and mus…

The Boise Survey

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Jesse Brundage Sears


A complete survey of the Independent Boise School District, Boise, Idaho was conducted over two weeks, with the purpose to study and observe…

On Reading The Bible

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


These are three lectures (numbers 8, 9, 10) excerpted from the author’s 1920 book On The Art Of Reading. The lectures were delivered to stu…

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