Liberating Education: colonial America

Showing posts with label colonial America. Show all posts

Showing posts with label colonial America. Show all posts

Monday, November 9, 2009

Education in Colonial America

Read how children learned - even in the wilderness - before public education in this Freeman article.

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Books I like

Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Education in a Free Society ed. by Ann Husted Burleigh
From Childhood to Adolescence by Maria Montessori
Habits of Mind by William B. Allen and Carol M. Allen
Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism by Jerry Kirkpatrick
Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius by Angelina Lillard
Mr. Jefferson's University by Gary Wills
Radical Vision: Stringfellow Barr, Scott Buchanan, and Their Efforts on Behalf of Education and Politics in the Twentieth Century by Charles A. Nelson
The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler
Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori
The Formation of Man by Maria Montessori
The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice by Michael Strong
The Creation of Conscious Culture Through Educational Innovation by Michael Strong
The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand
The Shadow University by AlanCharles Kors and Harvey A. Silvergate