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• Boundaries of the Educational Imagination (Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2015), by Wayne Hugo (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Institutions of Intelligence (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1969), by Bertram Morris (PDF at Ohio State)
• A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning (electronic edition, 1997), by James V. Schall (HTML at Georgetown)
• Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2012), by M. V. Tlostanova and Walter Mignolo (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Underground History of American Education (2003), by John Taylor Gatto (HTML at johntaylorgatto.com)
• The Place of Reason in Education (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1967), by Bertram Bandman (PDF at Ohio State)
• Philosophy of Science and Education: Chinese and European Views (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1995), ed. by Shen Qingsong, Tran Van Doan, and Fritz Wallner (multiple formats at Google)
• The Reform of Education (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1922), by Giovanni Gentile, trans. by Dino Bigongiari, contrib. by Benedetto Croce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Democracy and Education, by John Dewey (Gutenberg text)
• Do Teachers Care About Truth? Epistemological Issues for Education, by Edwin Philip Brandon (HTML at uwichill.edu.bb)
• Education Automation, Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies, by R. Buckminster Fuller (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• A Philosophy of Education, by Charlotte M. Mason (HTML at Ambleside Online)
• The School and Society (based on 1907 and 1915 editions), by John Dewey (HTML at Brock)
• Matters of Conscience: Conversations with Sterling M. McMurrin on Philosophy, Education, and Religion (c1996), by Sterling M. McMurrin and L. Jackson Newell (illustrated HTML at Signature Books)
• Jules Gaufrès: Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre (in French; Paris: Hachette et cie, ca. 1909), by Gabriel Compayré (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lost Tools of Learning, by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML with commentary at gbt.org)
• The Principles of Education and Guidance, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn (HTML at chabad.org)
• School Education, by Charlotte M. Mason (HTML at Ambleside Online)
• The Gift of Fire, by Richard Mitchell
  • HTML at sourcetext.com
  • multiple formats in Australia
• Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching (Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, 1913), by Fanny Jackson Coppin (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Art of Anthropology/The Anthropology of Art (c2013), ed. by Brandon D. Lundy (PDF with commentary at Tennessee)

• Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke
  • HTML at Fordham
  • HTML at Bartleby

• The Advancement of Learning, by Francis Bacon, ed. by Hartmut Krech and William Aldis Wright (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• The Advancement of Learning (London: Cassell, 1893), by Francis Bacon (Gutenberg text)

• Schools Into Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 1927-1932 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• Philosophy of Education Yearbook, by Philosophy of Education Society (U.S.) (partial serial archives)
• The International Journal of Illich Studies (2010-) (full serial archives)

• Progressive Education (partial serial archives)

• The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Simon Marginson (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)
• The Idea of a University, by John Henry Newman
  • HTML at Fordham
  • HTML at newmanreader.org

• The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum of the Conduct of Universities by Business Men, by Thorstein Veblen (text at McMaster; 540K)

• The Montessori Method (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912), by Maria Montessori and Anne E. George (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Don't Give Up, Josephine!, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Engines for Education, by Roger C. Schank and Chip Cleary (hypertext at engines4ed.org)

• Francis Wayland Parker: An Interpretive Biography (Los Angeles: I. Deach, 1934), by Ida Cassa Heffron (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Poverty of Ideological Education (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2000), by Tran Van Doan (multiple formats at Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Schools in Crisis: Training for Success of Failure? (electronic edition; Houston: Advance Publishins, 2009), by Carl Sommer (PDF files at advancepublishing.com)
• The Child and the Curriculum (28th impression; Chicago et al.: Univerity of Chicago Press, 1966), by John Dewey
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Abstracts of Dissertations and Theses in Education at the University of Michigan, 1917-1931 (Ann Arbor: Bureau of Educational Reference and Research, School of Education, University of Michigan, ca. 1932), by University of Michigan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four Essentials of Education (New York et al.: C. Scribner's sons, c1926), by Thomas Jesse Jones, contrib. by Franklin Henry Giddings and Michael Sadler (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina in Gerard Hall (Raleigh, NC: Printed by T. Loring, 1844), by James B. Shepard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Cambridge Essays on Education (1919), ed. by Arthur Christopher Benson (Gutenberg text)
• The Century of the Child (New York and London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1909), by Ellen Key, trans. by Francis Maro (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Child Under Eight (1920), by E. R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith (Gutenberg text)
• Comenius' School of Infancy: An Essay on the Education of Youth During the First Six Years (Boston: D. C. Heath, 1896), by Johann Amos Comenius, ed. by W. S. Monroe (PDF files at Roehampton)
• The Culture Demanded by Modern Life: A Series of Addresses and Arguments on the Claims of Scientific Education, by Edward Livingston Youmans (page images at MOA)
• Education (Oakland, CA et al.: Pacific Press Pub. Co., c1903), by Ellen Gould Harmon White (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Education and the Philosophical Ideal (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900), by Horatio W. Dresser (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Education as Service, by J. Krishnamurti (Gutenberg text)
• Education: Its Relations to the State and to the Individual, and Its Methods, by George Ferdinand Becker (page images at MOA)
• The Education of the Child, by Ellen Key (Gutenberg text)
• Facts in Jingles (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1915), by Winifred Sackville Stoner, ed. by M. V. O'Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Froebel's Chief Writings on Education (London: Edward Arnold, 1912), by Friedrich Fröbel, trans. by Samuel Sigmund Fechheimer Fletcher and James Welton (PDF files at Roehampton)
• How Gertrude Teaches Her Children: An Attempt to Help Mothers to Teach Their Children and an Account of the Method (London: S. Sonnenschein; Syracuse, NY: C.W. Bardeen, 1894), by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, ed. by Ebenezer Cooke, trans. by Lucy E. Holland and Francis C. Turner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF files at Roehampton
• Lecture on the Duties and Relations of Parents, Teachers and Pupils, by Charles Davies (page images at MOA)
• Levana: or, The Doctrine of Education (with biographical material; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1891), by Jean Paul (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manual of Natural Education (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1916), by Winifred Sackville Stoner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Means and Ends of Universal Education, by Ira Mayhew (page images at MOA)
• Natural Education (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1914), by Winifred Sackville Stoner, contrib. by M. V. O'Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Plain Educational Talks with Teachers and Parents, by Albert N. Raub (page images at MOA)
• Popular Education, by Ira Mayhew (page images at MOA)
• Practical Education (second American edition, 2 volumes; Providence: J. F. Lippitt; Boston: T. B. Wait and Sons, 1815), by Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Practical Education (New York: Harper and Bros., 1835), by Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Progressive Education, Commencing With the Infant (Boston: W.D. Ticknor, 1835), by Albertine-Adrienne Necker de Saussure, trans. by Emma Willard and Mrs. Lincoln Phelps (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Science and Education: Essays, by Thomas Henry Huxley (Gutenberg text)
• Science of Education (official Ontario normal school manual; Toronto: Ryerson Press, c1915), by Ontario Department of Education
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Science of Education, and Art of Teaching (Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys and Co., 1859), by John Ogden (page images at MOA)
• The Scientific Basis of Education, by John Hecker (page images at MOA)
• Before Books (New York: Adelphi Co., c1926), by Caroline Pratt and Jessie Stanton (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Salvaging of Civilization (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1921), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• Chapters on Social Science as Connected with the Administration of State Charities, by George Leib Harrison (page images at MOA)
• Colloquies on Religion and Religious Education (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849), by John Minter Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Education of Karl Witte: or, The Training of the Child, by Karl Heinrich Gottfried Witte, ed. by H. Addington Bruce, trans. by Leo Wiener
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; pages rotated
• The Enquirer (new edition; Edinburgh: J. Anderson, 1823), by William Godwin (page images at Google)
• An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance (revised and expanded edition), by John Foster (Gutenberg text)
• Euphranor: A Dialogue on Youth (London: William Pickering, 1851), by Edward FitzGerald (page images at Google)
• The Improvement of the Mind; To Which is Added, A Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth (London: Printed for J. Walker and Co., 1814), by Isaac Watts (page images at Google)
• Militarism in Education: A Contribution to Educational Reconstruction (London: Swarthmore Press, ca. 1919), by John Langdon-Davies (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Parents' Manual: or, Home and School Training, by Hiram Orcutt (page images at MOA)
• Study of Child Life (Chicago: American School of Home Economics, 1911), by Marion Foster Washburne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household Education (London: E. Moxon, 1849), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lectures and Essays (London: Macmillan and Co., 1870), by J. R. Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mother's Book (Boston: Carter, Hendee, and Babcock, 1831), by Lydia Maria Child (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Religion, Agnosticism, and Education (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1902), by John Lancaster Spalding (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Wings and the Child: or, The Building of Magic Cities (New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by E. Nesbit, illust. by George Barraud (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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