Works on Education
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RANDALL’S POPULAR EDUCATION. First Principles of Popular Education and Public Instruction. By S. S. Randall, Superintendent of Public Schools of the City of New York. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
SANDS’S PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING. The Teacher, the Pupil, the School. By Nathaniel Sands. 8vo, Cloth.
BURTON’S OBSERVING FACULTIES. The Culture of the Observing Faculties in the Family and the School; or, Things about Home, and how to make them Instructive to the Young. By Warren Burton, Author of “The District School as it was,” “Helps to Education,” &c. 16mo, Cloth, 75 cents.
CALKINS’S PRIMARY OBJECT LESSONS. Primary Object Lessons for a Graduated Course of Development. A Manual for Teachers and Parents, with Lessons for the Proper Training of the Faculties of the Children. By N. A. Calkins. Illustrations. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
WILLSON’S OBJECT LESSONS A Manual of Information and Suggestions for Object Lessons, in a Course of Elementary Instruction. Adapted to the Use of the School and Family Charts, and other Aids in Teaching. By Marcius Willson. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
ABBOTT’S TEACHER. Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young. By Jacob Abbott. With Engravings. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75.
BOESÉ’S EDUCATION IN NEW YORK CITY. Public Education in the City of New York: its History, Condition, and Statistics. An Official Report to the Board of Education. By Thomas Boesé, Clerk of the Board. With Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $1 50.
BEECHER’S TRAINING OF CHILDREN. The Religious Training of Children in the Family, the School, and the Church. By Catharine E. Beecher. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75.
EDGEWORTH’S PRACTICAL EDUCATION. A Treatise on Practical Education. By Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Maria Edgeworth. Engravings. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON’S ESSAYS. Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform. Chiefly from the Edinburgh Review. Corrected, Vindicated, and Enlarged, in Notes and Appendices. By Sir William Hamilton, Bart. With an Introductory Essay, by Rev. Robert Turnbull, D.D. 8vo, Cloth, $3 00.
DR. OLIN’S COLLEGE ADDRESSES. College Life: its Theory and Practice. By Rev. Stephen Olin, D.D., L.L.D., late President of the Wesleyan University. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
POTTER & EMERSON’S MANUAL. The School and the Schoolmaster. A Manual for the Use of Teachers, Employers, Trustees, Inspectors, &c., &c. In Two Parts. Part I. By Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D. Part II. By George B. Emerson, A.M., of Massachusetts. Part I. The School; its Objects, Relations, and Uses. With a Sketch of the Education most needed in the United States, the present State of Common Schools, the best Means of Improving them, and the consequent Duties of Parents, Trustees, Inspectors, &c. Part II. The proper Character, Studies, and Duties of the Teacher, with the best Methods for the Government and Instruction for the Common Schools, and the Principles on which School-Houses should be Built, Arranged, Warmed, and Ventilated. Engravings. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
EVERETT ON PRACTICAL EDUCATION. Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: being a Selection from the Orations and Discourses of Edward Everett, President of Harvard University. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
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