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• How to Do It, by Edward Everett Hale (Gutenberg text)
• How to Do It (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1871), by Edward Everett Hale
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• 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)
• Correspondence Between a Mother and Her Daughter at School (second edition; London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1817), by Mrs. Taylor and Jane Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Education of the Will: The Theory and Practise of Self-Culture (6th American edition, from the 30th French edition; c1909), by Jules Payot, trans. by Smith Ely Jelliffe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Student's Guide (fifth impression; London: University of London Press, 1920), by John Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Schoolmate (partial serial archives)

• The Art of Memory: Being a Comprehensive and Practical System of Memory Culture (St. Paul: National Pub. Co., 1898), by Henry H. Fuller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mastery of Memorizing (third edition; Harrisburg, PA: J.P. Downs, c1891), contrib. by James P. Downs, Wm. Raimond Baird, John Heyl Vincent, William Archibald Dunning, and G. F. C. Smillie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological Exercises (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, c1930), ed. by A. R. Orage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Phoenix: seu Artificiosa Memoria (in Latin; Vicentiae: Apud Petro Bertelli Bibliopola Patauina, 1600), by Petrus Ravennas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Guide to Memorizing Music (Cincinnati et al.: John Church Co., c1906), by A. J. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Open: The Philosophy and Practices That are Revolutionizing Education and Science (London: Ubiquity Press, 2017), ed. by Rajiv Jhangiani and Robert Biswas-Diener (multiple formats wth commentary at Ubiquity Press)
• Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), by Lucy Montgomery, John Hartley, Cameron Neylon, Malcolm Gillies, Eve Horwitz Gray, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Chun-Kai Huang, Joan Leach, Jason Potts, Xiang Ren, Katherine Skinner, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, and Katie Wilson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• At a Tipping Point: Education, Learning and Libraries (Dublin, OH: OCLC, c2014), contrib. by Cathy De Rosa, Joanne Cantrell, Margaret Gallagher, Janet Hawk, Irene Hoffman, Renée Page, Lorraine J. Haricombe, and Deb Wallace (PDF at oclc.org)
• Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge (2008), ed. by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education, ed. by Maha Bali, Catherine Cronin, Laura Czerniewicz, Robin DeRosa, and Rajiv Jhangiani (multiple formats at rebus.community)

• International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (2000-) (full serial archives)

• The Sublime and Education (2010), ed. by J. Jennifer Jones (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• 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.: University of Chicago Press, 1966), by John Dewey
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects (Everyman's Library #504; London: Dent; New York: Dutton, reprinted 1963), by Herbert Spencer, contrib. by Charles William Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• Only by Understanding: Education and International Organization (with "Post-War Social Education" by Roy A. Price; Headline Series #52; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1945), by William G. Carr, contrib. by Roy A. Price (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)
• On Education, Especially in Early Childhood (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1926), by Bertrand Russell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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 G. 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 (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1874), by Jean Paul
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• The Metaphysics of Education (Boston: Mayhew Pub. Co., 1914), by Arthur C. Fleshman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Modern Inquiries: Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1867), by Jacob Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• The Origins and Development of Elementary-School Science (Columbia doctoral dissertation; Chicago et al.: Scott, Foresman and Co., c1941), by Orra Ervin Underhill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Limitations of the Educational Theory of John Dewey (doctoral dissertation; Washington: Catholic University of America, 1929), by James Henry O'Hara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Before Books (New York: Adelphi Co., c1926), by Caroline Pratt and Jessie Stanton (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• 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 (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., 1914), by Karl Heinrich Gottfried Witte, ed. by H. Addington Bruce, trans. by Leo Wiener
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at arahive.org
• The Enquirer (new edition; Edinburgh: J. Anderson, 1823), by William Godwin
  • page images at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature, in a Series of Essays (London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797), by William Godwin
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)
• An Experiment With a Project Curriculum (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Ellsworth Collings, contrib. by William Heard Kilpatrick
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education, ed. by Maha Bali, Catherine Cronin, Laura Czerniewicz, Robin DeRosa, and Rajiv Jhangiani (multiple formats at rebus.community)
• The Parents' Manual: or, Home and School Training, by Hiram Orcutt (page images at MOA)
• The Salvaging of Civilization (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1921), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• Study of Child Life (Chicago: American School of Home Economics, 1911), by Marion Foster Washburne (page images at HathiTrust)
• El Tempe Arjentino: ó, El Delta de los Rios Uruguay, Paraná y Plata, Con un Discurso Preliminar del A. Magariños Cervantes, y Seguido de los Consejos de Oro Sobre la Educacion (5th edition, in Spanish; Buenos Aires: Imp. Americana, 1870), by Marcos Sastre, contrib. by Alejandro Magariños Cervantes (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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