Education

Education studies learning processes, pedagogical theory, and institutional systems of instruction. It analyzes curriculum design, educational philosophy, and policy development. This category includes both theoretical perspectives on learning and applied educational research.

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Education Flaming youth – Samuel Adams Samuel Adams

A Jazz Age novel about a wealthy family whose daughters embrace modern romance as their mother's illness exposes…

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Business The Complete Servant – Samuel Adams Samuel Adams

A practical 1825 London household manual by two career servants detailing the duties, wages, and conduct of every…

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Biography Alcuin of York, c. A.D. 732 to 804 – Alcuin Alcuin

Stephen Allott presents the life and letters of Alcuin of York, the Anglo-Saxon scholar who shaped learning at…

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Classic Literature Propositiones ad acuendos juvenes (Propositiones ad Acuendos Iuvenes) – Alcuin Alcuin

Alcuin's Latin collection of mathematical puzzles is the oldest surviving Latin problem collection and the root of many…

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Classic Literature De orthographia – Alcuin Alcuin

Alcuin's short Latin schoolbook teaches correct spelling, pronunciation, and writing of Latin for the Carolingian reform.

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Education Pedagogical Writings (Pädagogische Schriften) – Friedrich Schleiermacher Friedrich Schleiermacher

Schleiermacher's pedagogical writings treat education as a practical art that works on free persons and cannot guarantee fixed…

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Computers Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines – Marvin Minsky Marvin Minsky

Minsky's classic textbook introduces computability through finite-state machines, Turing machines, recursive functions, and symbol-manipulation systems.

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Artificial Intelligence Inventive Minds – Marvin Minsky Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky argues that schools teach facts but rarely teach children how to think, and that computers are…

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Biography Record of a friendship – Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich

A collection of letters between psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich and school reformer A. S. Neill, tracing a transatlantic friendship…

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Classic Literature The Tamworth reading room – John Henry Newman John Henry Newman

Newman's essays argue that secular knowledge alone cannot make people moral, questioning the Victorian faith in useful knowledge.

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Education University sketches – John Henry Newman John Henry Newman

Newman's University Sketches traces universities from Athens to Dublin to define what a university truly is.

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Education Idea of a University – John Henry Newman John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University argues that a university is a place of teaching universal…

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Christianity Grammar of Assent (An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent) – John Henry Newman John Henry Newman

The book's central claim is that assent is unconditional, an adhesion without reserve or doubt, distinct from conditional…

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Education The Cambridge textbook of bioethics – Peter Singer Peter Singer

A case-based reference in bioethics edited by Peter Singer and A. M.

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Education Five Letters on Public Education in Russia (Cinq lettres sur l’education publique en Russie. –) – Joseph de Maistre Joseph de Maistre

Joseph de Maistre's letters examine education, state power, and Russia's Orthodox and monarchical character.

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