The article Education should naturally be followed by a study of the article Universities (Vol. 27, p. 748—about 100 pages, if printed in the style of this Guide) by James Bass Mullinger (author of the History of Cambridge, The Schools of Charles the Great, etc.) and, for American universities, by Daniel Coit Gilman, late president of Johns Hopkins University; and by a reading of articles on the great universities, as for instance, Oxford, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Glasgow, St. Andrews, Dublin, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, California, Leland Stanford, Jr., etc. The student should then turn to the article Schools (Vol. 24, p. 359; equivalent to about 40 pages of this Guide) by Arthur Francis Leach, author of English Schools at the Reformation, who gives a summary of what is known of Greek, Roman and English schools.
Then,—to supplement these general articles,—he should read—
On Greek education:
Plato (Vol. 21, p. 808), especially p. 812 (on Meno) and 818 (on the Republic).
Aristotle (Vol. 2, p. 501).
Sparta (Vol. 25, p. 609, particularly p. 611).
On Roman education:
Cato (Vol. 5, p. 535).
Quintilian (Vol. 22, p. 761).
On early Christian education: