Education
The Elements of Style
“The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk, Jr. is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the best-known and most influe…
The Art of Public Speaking
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and Joseph B. Esenwein is a manual for people who have to speak in public, and it is still in us…
An Old Master and Other Political Essays
This is a collection of five essays published by Woodrow Wilson in 1893, while he was Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University (s…
The Esperanto Teacher
The international language Esperanto was first released to the world in 1887, when L. L. Zamenhof published his first book, "Dr. Espera…
Books and Reading
[The author] hopes that the effect of these discussions may lead to more comprehensive and elevated estimates of authors and of literature o…
The Elements of Mammalogy
The Elements of Mammalogy is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This s…
The Intelligence of School Children
This book has been written for the rank and file of teachers, school supervisors, and normal-school students. Its purpose is to illustrate t…
Some Passages in the Life of One of H.M. Inspectors of Schools
Sneyd-Kinnersley was an Inspector of Schools in a period when regulations were rapidly changing and access to free public education was expa…
Arabic Primer
“Languages”, Sir Arthur Cotton writes, “are usually learnt as if it took a long time to learn the grammar &c., but that to speak with a …
On Interpretation
Aristotle's On Interpretation (Greek Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας or Peri Hermeneias) or De Interpretatione (the Latin title) is the second of Aristotle's…
The Poisoned Loving-Cup
"ANGLO-AMERICAN accord is splendid sentiment. America ever rises gladly to this toast. But we must drink from our own crystal chalice o…
The Flexner Report
The Flexner Report is a book-length review and investigation into medical education in the United States and Canada, written by Abraham Flex…
America Becomes A World Power
The Standard School Broadcast was an educational radio program that went on the air in 1928 to promote history and music appreciation for st…
A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts
This collection of projects and experiments was submitted by Rufus Tuttle, following an Act of Congress promoting education and learning. Th…
LibriVox Language Learning Collection
This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource at LibriVox. The LibriVox Language Learning Collections cont…
The Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke
This text is a reprint of the first English-language book on rhetoric, including an introduction and notes from Frederic Ives Carpenter of t…
On Reading The Bible
These are three lectures (numbers 8, 9, 10) excerpted from the author’s 1920 book On The Art Of Reading. The lectures were delivered to stu…
LibriVox Language Learning Collection
This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource at LibriVox. The LibriVox Language Learning Collections cont…
Rousseau and Education According to Nature
In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…
The Boise Survey
A complete survey of the Independent Boise School District, Boise, Idaho was conducted over two weeks, with the purpose to study and observe…