Educational ideas in America : a documentary history

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INTELLECTUAL CURRENTS FROM THE OLD WORLD. THE RELIGIOUS TRADITION. The Bible ; Moses Maimonides, "On True Wisdom" (1190) ; Martin Luther, "Letter to the Mayors and Aldermen of All the Cities of Germany in Behalf of Christian Schools" (1524) ; John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)

RENAISSANCE IDEALS. Desiderius Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince (1516) ; Michel de Montaigne, "Of the Education of Children" (1580)

THE ENGLISH HERITAGE. The Regulations of Westminster School in England (1560) ; The Curriculum and Methodology of a Grammar School in London, England (1637-1660) ; Bernard Bailyn, Family Life in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth Century England (1960)

COLONIAL VIEWS ON EDUCATION. THE TRANSMISSION OF A RENAISSANCE CULTURE. Philip Vickers Fithian, Journal and Letters (1773-1774)

QUAKER IDEAS. William Penn, "Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims" (1693)

PURITAN THOUGHT. John Winthrop, "A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630) ; Michael Wigglesworth, The Day of Doom (1662) ; Cotton Mather, Essays to Do Good (1710) ; The New England Primer [1727 and 1737]

TOWARD A MORE HUMANE CONCEPTION OF THE CHILD. Christopher Dock, The Schul-Ordnung (1770)

3. THE MIND OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT. THE EMERGENCE OF A SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY. Francis Bacon, Novum Organum (1620)

THE DOCTRINE OF EMPIRICISM. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

A NEW VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE. Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, ou Traite de education (1762)

TOWARD AN ENLIGHTENED PEDAGOGY. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Leonard and Gertrude (1781-1787) ; Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Letter to a Friend about His Orphanage at Stanz, Switzerland (1799) ; Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, In the Old Castle at Yverdun, Switzerland (1805-1807, 1809)

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S IDEAS ON EDUCATION. Benjamin Franklin, "Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One" [1748] ; Benjamin Franklin, "Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania" (1749) ; Benjamin Franklin, "Idea of the English School" (1751) ; Benjamin Franklin, "Preface" to Poor Richard Improved (1758)

EDUCATION FOR A NEW REPUBLIC. THE IDEAS OF BENJAMIN RUSH. Benjamin Rush, A Plan for the Establishment of Public Schools (1786) ; Benjamin Rush, Thoughts upon the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic (1786)

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION. George Washington, Letter to Robert Brooke (March 16, 1795) ; George Washington, Letter to Alexander Hamilton (September 1, 1796)

EQUALITY AND EXCELLENCE: THE JEFFERSONIAN CONCEPTION. Thomas Jefferson, "A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom" (1779) ; Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-1782) ; Thomas Jefferson, Letter to George Wythe (August 13, 1786) ; Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams (October 28, 1813) ; Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Roger C. Weightman (June 24, 1826)

RESISTANCE TO ACCULTURATION: THE DUTCH SCENE. Washington Irving, "Sleepy Hollow" (1819)

THE CHANGING CONTENT OF AMERICAN TEXTBOOKS. Noah Webster, "The Reforming of Spelling" (1789) ; William Holmes McGuffey, The Eclectic Third Reader (1837)

NEW FOUNDATIONS FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION. THE RISE OF THE COMMON MAN. Margaret Bayard Smith, "The People's President": An Eyewitness Account of Andrew Jackson's Inauguration (March, 1829)

INDIVIDUALISM AND REFORM: THE EMERSONIAN CONCEPTION. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (1841) ; Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Man the Reformer" (1841) ; Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Education" (1876)

THE IDEOLOGY OF THE COMMON SCHOOL CRUSADE. Thaddeus Stevens, A Plea for Free Schools (April 11, 1835)

EDUCATION FOR A FREE SOCIETY: THE IDEAS OF HORACE MANN. Horace Mann, Ninth Annual Report (December 10, 1845) ; Horace Mann, Twelfth Annual Report (November 24, 1848)

AN ERA OF TRANSITION: 1865-1919. EVOLVING PATTERNS OF EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT. TOWARD UNIVERSAL EDUCATION. The Supreme Court of Michigan, The Kalamazoo Decision (July 21, 1874)

THE QUEST OF THE NEGRO. Whitelaw Reid, After the War: A Southern Tour (1866) ; Samuel C. Armstrong, "The Founding of the Hampton Institute" (April, 1868) ; W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, "Strivings of the Negro People" (1897) ; W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, "Of the Training of Black Men" (1902) ; W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, "The Training of Negroes for Social Power" (1903) ; Booker T. Washington, "Industrial Education for the Negro" (1903) ; Booker T. Washington, My Larger Education (1911) ; Booker T. Washington, "The Highest Education" (1902)

EDUCATING THE IMMIGRANT: THE ISSUE OF AMERICANIZATION. John Spargo, "The School Child" (1906) ; Jane Addams, "Educational Methods" (1902) ; Edward Bok, Autobiography (1920)

TOWARD A NEW SYNTHESIS OF EDUCATIONAL THEORY. THE INFLUX OF EDUCATIONAL IDEAS FROM ABROAD. Johann Friedrich Herbart, The Science of Education (1806) ; Friedrich Froebel, The Education of Man (1826) ; Herbert Spencer, Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical (1860)

THE CONSERVATIVE STANCE. William Torrey Harris, Compulsory Education in Relation to Crime and Social Morals [1885] ; William Graham Sumner, "Integrity in Education" (circa 1885)

AN AMERICAN SYNTHESIS: THE IDEOLOGY OF PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION. Francis Wayland Parker, Notes of Talks on Teaching (1882) ; Francis Wayland Parker, "Democracy and Education" (July, 1891) ; William James, Pragmatism (1907) ; William James, The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to "Pragmatism"

Author's Preface (1909) ; John Dewey, "The Psychological Aspect of the School Curriculum" (1897) ; John Dewey, The School and Society (1899)

PSYCHOLOGICAL REORIENTATIONS IN EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT. THE IMPACT OF RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY. Granville Stanley Hall, "The Ideal School As Based On Child Study" (1901) ; William James, Talks to Teachers on Psychology (1899)

NEW THEORIES OF LEARNING. Edward L. Thorndike, Animal Intelligence (1898) ; John B. Watson, "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" (1913) ; B.F. Skinner, The Behavior of Organisms (1938) ; Wolfgang Kohler, The Mentality of Apes (1917)

THE INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN IDEAS. Jean Piaget, The Language and Thought of the Child (1926) ; Jean Piaget, The Child's Conception of Physical Causality (1930) ; Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method (1912) ; Maria Montessori, "The Teacher's Preparation" [1949]

EDUCATION IN MODERN SOCIETY: 1919 TO THE PRESENT. SOCIAL CURRENTS OF EQUALITARIANISM AMERICA IN PERSPECTIVE. George Santayana, The American Image (1920)

THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN. Emma Willard, On the Education of Women (1819) ; Ellen and Kenneth Keniston, The Changing Image of the American Woman (1964)

CRISES AND RECURRING ISSUES. Chief Justice Earl Warren, Opinion of the United States Supreme Court (May 17, 1954) ; Edward P. Dozier, The American Indian: Acculturationunder Duress (1965) ; James S. Coleman et al., Equality of Educational Opportunity (1966) ; James S. Coleman, "The Coleman Report": A Commentary (1966)

REDRESSING THE IMBALANCE OF OPPORTUNITY: PROGRESS TOWARD AN AMERICAN IDEAL. Paul Conklin, A New Approach to Indian Education in America (1967) ; Oscar Handlin, The Goals of American Minority Groups (1966)

CROSSCURRENTS IN EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT. THE AMERICAN SCHOOL IN TRANSITION. The Report of the Committee of Ten (December 4, 1893) ; John W. Gardner, The Challenge: Can a Democracy Be Equal and Excellent, Too? (1958) ; James Bryant Conant, The Comprehensive High School (1967) ; Robert H. Anderson, Exemplars of Team Teaching (1965) ; William P. McLoughlin, On the Concept of a Nongraded School (1968)

INNOVATION AND REFORM. J. Lloyd Trump, On the "Ingredients of Change" (1963) ; Jerome S. Bruner, "The Spiral Curriculum" (1960) ; Bernard Z. Friedlander, on "Innovations in Teaching" (1966)

THE TECHNOLOGY OF EDUCATION. B.F. Skinner, "The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching" (1954) ; Charles E. Silberman, "Technology Is Knocking at the Schoolhouse Door" (1966) ; Margaret Chisholm, "Educational Technology: How Humane Can It Be?" (1967)

CONCEPTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION. HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS. John Henry Cardinal Newman, The Idea of a University [1852] ; The "Land-Grant" Concept: The Morrill Act (July 2, 1862) ; Justin S. Morrill, State Aid to the U.S. Land-Grant Colleges (October 10, 1888) ; Noah Porter, A Critique of the Elective System (1870) ; Charles William Eliot, "Liberty in Education" (1885) ; Daniel Coit Gilman, The Launching of a University (1906)

THE UNIVERSITY IN AN AGE OF UPHEAVAL. Carl L. Becker, On Academic Freedom and Responsibility (April 27, 1940) ; Harvard University Committee, General Education in a Free Society (1945) ; Richard C. Richardson, Jr., and Paul A. Elsner, A New Role for the Community Junior College (1965) ; George F. Kennan, Higher Education in a World of Shifting Values (1968)

DIALOGUES IN A CHANGING WORLD. THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE. John H. Bunzel, The Influence of Organized Interest Groups (1964) ; Robert J. Havighurst, Urban Education: The Impact of Metropolitanism (1967) ; Frank Riessman, The Culture of Poverty: Educating Children of the Poor (1967)

THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA. Francis Keppel, "The Business Interest in Education" (1967) ; Patrick Suppes, "The Computer and Excellence" (1967) ; Edward Joseph Shoben, Jr., "Education in Megalopolis" (1967) ; Norman Cousins, "The End of the Social Contract" (1967)