Education Books

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

Jacob Abbott

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Developmen..

The Teacher

Jacob Abbott

The Teacher is a book on theory and practice of education and moral teaching written by Jacob Abbott, an American writer of children's books.Author's Preface:This book is intended to detail, in a..

A Collection of Scotch Proverbs

Pappity Stampoy

A Collection of Scotch Proverbs written by Pappity Stampoy translated to English language. In his collection of Scottish proverbs from literary texts written before 1600 Bartlett Jere Whitin..

Spontaneous Activity in Education

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 was to allow this natural ability of the child to flourish th..

Practical Education, Volume I

Richard Lovell Edgeworth

We shall not imitate the invidious example of some authors, who think it necessary to destroy the edifices of others, in order to clear the way for their own. We have no peculiar system to support, an..

Eclectic School Readings - Stories from Life

Orison Swett Marden

To make a life, as well as to make a living, is one of the supreme objects for which we must all struggle. The sooner we realize what this means, the greater and more worthy will be the life which we ..

Service by the Educated Negro

Roscoe Conkling Bruce

Teaching is an art inseparable from the personality of the teacher,—an art in which a mature person seeks by personal influence to help immature persons build their characters soundly. Teaching abilit..

Brief for the higher education of the negro

Kelly Miller

The first great need of the Negro is that the choice youth of the race should assimilate the principles of culture and hand them down to the masses below. This is the only gate-way through which a new..