American Educational Thought

Essays from 1640-1940

Andrew J. Milson|Chara Haeussler Bohan|Perry L. Glanzer|J. Wesley Null
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American Educational Thought: Essays from 1640-1940 contains primary source readings from the mid 1600s to 1940. The goal of the work is to provide teachers, contemporary scholars of education, and policymakers with the most significant arguments made on the subject of American education during this time period. In this second edition of the book, the editors have included numerous new works that open up new possibilities for discussion, represent more wide-ranging viewpoints, and provide even richer context for making sense of American educational thought.

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

  • Chapter 2. Excerpts from Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims; William Penn, 1693
  • Chapter 3. An Essay Upon the Good Education of Children; Cotton Mather, 1708
  • Chapter 4. Proposals Relating to the Youth in Pensilvania; Benjamin Franklin, 1749
  • Chapter 5. Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson
  • Chapter 6. Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush
  • Chapter 7. On Education of Youth in America; Noah Webster, 1790
  • Chapter 8. An Address to the Public; Emma Willard, 1819
  • Chapter 9. The Character of Young Ladies; Mary Lyon, 1835
  • Chapter 10. Selected Writings of Catharine Beecher
  • Chapter 11. Selected Writings of Horace Mann
  • Chapter 12. Report of the Committee on Education of the House of Representatives; Allen Dodge, 1840
  • Chapter 13. The Catholic Response to Protestantism in Public Schools
  • Chapter 14. The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848
  • Chapter 15. Common Schools; Horace Bushnell, 1853
  • Chapter 16. Education; Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1876
  • Chapter 17. Secularized Education; Robert Louis Dabney, 1879
  • Chapter 18. Selected Writings of William Torrey Harris
  • Chapter 19. Report of the Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies; National Education Association, 1894
  • Chapter 20. The Child; Francis W. Parker, 1894
  • Chapter 21. The Function of Education in Democratic Society; Charles W. Eliot, 1898
  • Chapter 22. Excerpts from Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals; William James, 1899
  • Chapter 23. Selected Writings of John Dewey
  • Chapter 24. The Ideal School as Based on Child Study; G. Stanley Hall, 1901
  • Chapter 25. Excerpt from Up From Slavery; Booker T. Washington, 1901
  • Chapter 26. Selected Writings of W.E.B. DuBois
  • Chapter 27. Why Teachers Should Organize; Margaret Haley, 1904
  • Chapter 28. The Certification of Teachers; Ellwood P. Cubberley, 1906
  • Chapter 29. Selected Writings of Jane Addams
  • Chapter 30. The Contribution of Psychology to Education; E. L. Thorndike, 1910
  • Chapter 31. Equal Pay for Equal Work; Grace Strachan, 1910
  • Chapter 32. Report of the Commission of the Reorganization of Secondary Education; National Education Association, 1918
  • Chapter 33. The Project Method; William H. Kilpatrick, 1918
  • Chapter 34. Selected Writings of Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Chapter 35. Excerpt from Dare the School Build a New Social Order?; George S. Counts, 1932
  • Chapter 36. Selected Writings of Williams C. Bagley
  • Chapter 37. Selection from Progressive Education at the Crossroads; Boyd H. Bode, 1938
  • Chapter 38. Prejudice the Garden Toward Roses? Isaac Kandel, 1939