Education Books

Mind and Hand: Manual Training the Chief Factor in Education

Charles H. Ham

In tracing the course of invention and discovery, I found that I was moving in the line of the progress of civilization. I found that the great gulf between the savage and the civilized man is spanned..

Why go to College

Clayton Sedgwick Cooper

A few great teachers in every worthy North American institution who know and love the boys, have always been and doubtless will continue to be the secret of the power of our schools and colleges. Ther..

Twenty Talks to Teachers

Thomas E. Sanders

Twenty Talks to Teachers is an epitome of some of the discussions used by the author in teachers’ institutes. It is not a profound book. It was not intended to be. No one is expected to agree wit..

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

How bewitching is that humble softness of manners which humility gives birth to, and how faint are the imitations of affectation! That gentleness of behaviour, which makes us courteous to all, and tha..

Parts of Speech - Essays on English

Brander Matthews

The point of view from which the English language has been approached is that of the man of letters rather than that of the professed expert in linguistics. But the writer ventures to hope that the pr..

Twenty Years' Residence among the People of Turkey

Fanny Janet Sandison Blunt

The book has been divided into four parts. In the first, the general characteristics of the various races of Turkey are sketched. Very little is said about their history, for it is not the history but..