Important Books About Education
Top 10 Important Books About Education
: How Children Fail, The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, How Children Learn, Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, The Day I Became an Autodidact, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, And the Skylark Sings with Me, Learning All The Time
| Author | John Holt |
| ISBN | 0201484021 |
First published in the mid 1960s, How Children Fail began an education reform movement that continues today. In his 1982 edition, John Holt added new insights into how children investigate the world, into the perennial problems of classroom learning, grading, testing, and into the role of the trust...
| Author | Grace Llewellyn |
| ISBN | 0962959170 |
An estimated 700,000 American children are now taught at home. This book tells teens how to take control of their lives and get a "real life." Young people can reclaim their natural ability to teach themselves and design a personalized education program. Grace Llewellyn explains the entire process,...
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Before reading this book I really thought I was 100% sure about my reasons to homeschool. Boy, was I wrong. I guess I was only half way there because now that I have finished this book, I realize that I never really saw the harms of the public school system 100%.
Our children are being limited every...
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
| Author | Peter O. Gray |
| ISBN | 0465025994 |
Our children spend their days being passively instructed, and made to sit still and take tests—often against their will. We call this imprisonment schooling, yet wonder why kids become bored and misbehave. Even outside of school children today seldom play and explore without adult supervision,...
| Author | John Holt |
| ISBN | 0201484048 |
This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, “learning is as natural as breathing.” In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn...
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
| Author | John Taylor Gatto |
| ISBN | 0865716315 |
“Gatto draws on thirty years in the classroom and many years of research as a school reformer. He puts forth his thesis with a rhetorical style that is passionate, logical, and laden with examples and illustrations.” ForeWord Magazine
“Weapons of Mass Instruction is probably his best...
The Day I Became an Autodidact
| Author | Kendall Hailey |
| ISBN | 0440550130 |
This was an incredibly interesting book that I enjoyed far more than I initially thought I would. The premise is simple, teenager Kendall Hailey is highly dissatisfied about being told what to learn so decides to take control of her own education. What follows is a scattered journal illustrating the...
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
| Author | Malcolm Gladwell |
| ISBN | 0316346624 |
An alternate cover edition exists here.
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion...
| Author | David H. Albert |
| ISBN | 0865714010 |
A clear and magical account of how David and Ellen helped their daughters find new ways to take charge of their education... A treat you should not miss.?John Taylor Gatto, 1991 New York Teacher of the Year and author of Dumbing Us Down
Progressive-minded parents considering homeschooling their...
| Author | John Holt |
| ISBN | 0201550911 |
How small children begin to read, write, count, and investigate the world, without being taught
The essence of John Holt's insight into learning and small children is captured in Learning All The Time. This delightful book by the influential author of How Children Fail and How Children...
| Author | John Holt |
| ISBN | 0738206946 |
The classic and indispensable work on teaching children at home, fully updated for today's new laws, new lifestyles, and the growing new generation of homeschooling parents
Today more than one and a half million children are being taught at home by their own parents. In this expanded...
| Author | Maria Montessori |
| ISBN | 1596059435 |
This groundbreaking classic of educational philosophy takes on urgent new necessity today, as "traditional" methods of early-childhood schooling seem to be failing us. Published in Italian in 1909 and first translated into English in 1912, these still-revolutionary theories focus on the individuality...
Montessori: A Modern Approach
| Author | Paula Polk Lillard |
| ISBN | 0805209204 |
Montessori: A Modern Approach has been called the single best book for anyone -- educator, childcare professional, and especially parent -- seeking answers to the questions: What is the Montessori method? Are its revolutionary ideas about early childhood education relevant to today's world? And...
| Author | Maria Montessori |
| ISBN | 0345305833 |
There are few books on children that I have read that are better than this one.
I love this woman. What I would give to have lunch with her! I want to share Nathaniel Branden's stuff on self-esteem with her! She would have a much better understanding of adults. Found it very interesting that she...
Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius
| Author | Angeline Stoll Lillard |
| ISBN | 0195325265 |
One hundred years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori. Lillard...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0140449140 |
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge?...
| Author | John Taylor Gatto |
| ISBN | 0945700059 |
Book online at the author's website
Ah, for the good old days, back before child labor laws, back when no had time for such inventions as "adolescence", back when one could sing a cute song about darkies or niggers without being a racist, back when flogging children in the name of civility was...
| Author | Ivan Illich |
| ISBN | 0714508799 |
Deschooling Society (1971) is a critical discourse on education as practised in modern economies. It is a book that brought Ivan Illich to public attention. Full of detail on programs and concerns, the book gives examples of the ineffectual nature of institutionalized education. Illich posited...
