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Herbert Spencer · English
A major Victorian education classic on knowledge, character, science, health, and child development.
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Herbert Spencer · English
A major Victorian education classic on knowledge, character, science, health, and child development.

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Samuel Johnson · English
A major work of literary biography and criticism on English poets, taste, style, and reputation.

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Francis Bacon · English
A public-domain classic on knowledge, education, scholarship, scientific method, inquiry, and the reform of learning.

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William Strunk Jr. · English
A classic education work on English usage, composition, grammar, concision, clarity, and practical writing style.

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Matthew Arnold · English
A classic Victorian argument about culture, education, social order, criticism, and public life.

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John Ruskin · English
Ruskin’s influential lectures on reading, books, education, character, gender ideals, and moral culture.

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Virginia Woolf · English
Virginia Woolf’s influential essay on women, literature, money, space, and creative freedom.

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John Dewey · English
Dewey’s practical classic on reflective thought, education, judgment, inquiry, habit, and disciplined learning.

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Francis Bacon · English
Bacon’s program for organizing knowledge, reforming study, and advancing useful learning.

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Booker T. Washington · English
Washington’s autobiography of emancipation, schooling, Tuskegee, self-help, race, and public leadership.

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John Dewey · English
Dewey’s compact argument for active learning, democracy, experience, and school reform.

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John Locke · English
Locke’s practical educational treatise on habit, character, discipline, health, reason, and formation.

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Peter Mark Roget · English
A classic reference work arranging English words by ideas, meanings, relations, and expression.

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Lu Yu · English
A concise classic on tea, utensils, preparation, taste, and the culture of drinking tea.

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John Dewey · English
A major work of educational philosophy on democracy, experience, growth, and learning.

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Grenville Kleiser · English
A practical treasury of English phrases for style, vocabulary, speech, and composition.