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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