Readings In American Educational Thought: From Puritanism To Progressivism

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Introduction

1. John Cotton, c.1641, Spiritual Milk for American Babes Drawn Out of the Breasts of Both Testaments for their Soul's Nourishment

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2. William Penn, 1693, Excerpt from Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims

(6)

3. Cotton Mather, 1708, An Essay Upon the Good Education of Children (An Essay Upon Well-Taught Children; And Upon an Able and Faithful Teacher of Them)

(16)

4. Benjamin Franklin, 1749, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania

(6)

5. Christopher Dock, 1750, Schul Ordnung [School Management]

(26)

6. Thomas Jefferson, Selected Writings

(12)

a. 1778, A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge

b. 1785, Letter to John Banister: Advantages of an American Education

c. 1818, Letter to Nathaniel Burwell: Education of Women

7. Benjamin Rush, Selected Writings

(18)

a. 1787, Thoughts upon Female Education

b. 1798, Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic

8. Noah Webster, 1790, On the Education of Youth in America

(24)

9. Emma Hart Willard, 1819, An Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education

115

(8)

10. Mary Lyon, 1835, The Character of the Young Ladies

123

(10)

11. Catharine Beecher, Selected Writings

133

(16)

a. 1835, An Essay on the Education of Female Teachers

b. 1846, Remedy for Wrongs to Women (From: The Evils Suffered by American Women and American Children: The Causes and the Remedy)

12. Horace Mann, Selected Writings

149

(42)

a. 1837, Means and Objects of Common School Education

b. 1848, Twelfth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts School Board

13. Allen W. Dodge, 1840, Report of the Committee on Education of the House of Representatives

191

(10)

14. The Catholic—Protestant Debate about Public School Funding, 1840, Various Documents

201

(16)

a. Thomas O'Connor, 1840, Petition of the Catholics of the City of New York

b. Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York

c. N. Bangs, Thomas E. Bond, & George Peck, 1840, Memorial of a Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church

15. Horace Bushnell, 1853, Common Schools

217

(18)

16. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1876, Education

235

(8)

17. G. Stanley Hall, 1883, The Contents of Children's Minds on Entering School

243

(12)

18. William Torrey Harris, Selected Writings

255

(14)

a. 1885, Compulsory Education in Relation to Crime arid Social Morals

b. 1893, The Philosophy of Education

19. Francis W. Parker, 1894, The Child (From: Talks on Pedagogics)

269

(14)

20. Charles W. Eliot, 1898, The Function of Education in Democratic Society (From: Educational Reform: Essays and Addresses)

283

(10)

21. William James, 1899, Excerpt from Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

293

(14)

22. John Dewey, Selected Writings

307

(28)

a. 1900, Excerpt from School and Society

b. 1938, Excerpt from Experience and Education

23. Booker T. Washington, 1901, Excerpt from Up from Slavery

335

(14)

24. Jane Addams, 1902, Educational Methods (From: Democracy and Social Ethics)

349

(16)

25. W.E.B. DuBois, Selected Writings

365

(22)

a. 1902, Of the Training of Black Men

b. 1903, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others (From: The Souls of Black Folk)

26. Margaret Haley, 1904, Why Teachers Should Organize

387

(6)

27. E. L. Thorndike, 1906, Introduction to The Principles of Teaching

393

(8)

28. Grace C. Strachan, 1910, Equal Pay for Equal Work

401

(6)

29. George Counts, 1932, Excerpt from Dare the School Build a New Social Order?

407

(16)

30. William C. Bagley, Selected Writings

423

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a. 1938, An Essentialist's Platform for the Advancement of American Education

b. 1939, The Significance of the Essentialist Movement in Educational Theory

About the Editors

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Readings In American Educational Thought: From Puritanism To Progressivism

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