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Eighteen lectures explain literary expression, reading methods, the classics, fiction, and poetry through sustained attention to actual works.

Arlo Bates considers how teachers can turn the study of poetry, prose, drama, and fiction into an active literary education.

Gilman challenges familiar assumptions about childhood, discipline, motherhood, servants, and society's responsibility for raising children.

Seventeen Huxley essays address scientific learning, universities, medical training, school boards, technical education, and the place of culture.

Jane Addams explores how city streets, commercial entertainment, work, and community institutions shape young people’s hopes and conduct.

Adler explores moral education through stories, classroom experience, habits, and practical duties, with attention to children’s developing judgment.

A formative children’s classic about family discipline, conscience, affection, and moral growth.

Rousseau’s influential vision of childhood, freedom, experience, moral development, and education.

Samuel Smiles’s influential Victorian guide uses biographies of inventors, reformers, and workers to argue for perseverance and self-education.

Isabella Beeton’s celebrated household manual combines recipes, menus, domestic advice, and practical guidance for running a Victorian home.

A major Victorian education classic on knowledge, character, science, health, and child development.

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

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

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

A classic Victorian argument about culture, education, social order, criticism, and public life.

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

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

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

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

Washington’s autobiography of emancipation, schooling, Tuskegee, self-help, race, and public leadership.

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

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

A classic reference work arranging English words by ideas, meanings, relations, and expression.

A concise classic on tea, utensils, preparation, taste, and the culture of drinking tea.