Work or excerpt
|
Author
|
Given date
|
Links
|
"The Disadvantages of an Elite Education", in the Summer 2008 edition of The American Scholar
|
William Deresiewicz
|
2008
|
|
The Court and Country
|
Nicholas Breton
|
1618
|
|
Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia
|
|
1818
|
|
Historia Calamitatum
|
Peter Abélard[2]
|
1130 (circa)
|
|
The Closing of the American Mind
|
Allan Bloom
|
1987
|
|
Muqaddimah
|
Ibn Khaldun
|
1375
|
|
The Idea of a University
|
Cardinal John Henry Newman
|
1854
|
|
Discipline and Punish
|
Michel Foucault
|
1975
|
|
Addresses to the German Nation
|
Johann Gottlieb Fichte[3]
|
1807
|
|
A Nation at Risk
|
(Commissioned by the US federal government)
|
1983
|
|
The Secret of Childhood
|
Maria Montessori
|
1936
|
|
"The School Days of an Indian Girl", in The Atlantic Monthly
|
Zitkala-Sa[4]
|
1884
|
|
[Letter to John Adams]
|
Abigail Adams
|
1776
|
|
Experience and Education
|
John Dewey
|
1938
|
|
Third Lateran Council
|
Third Lateran Council
|
1179
|
|
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
|
Richard Rodriguez
|
1982
|
|
Twenty Years at Hull-House
|
Jane Addams
|
1910
|
|
"The Girls Who Go to Harvard", in the Harvard-Radcliffe yearbook
|
Faye Levine
|
1965
|
|
A Russian Diary
|
Anna Politkovskaya
|
2004
|
|
[Telegram to Dwight D. Eisenhower]
|
[Parents of the Little Rock Nine]
|
1957[5]
|
|
Cyropaedia
|
Xenophon[6]
|
580 BC (circa)
|
|
"Industrial Education for the Negro"
|
Booker T. Washington
|
1903
|
|
"Of Education"
|
John Milton
|
1644
|
|
"The Poet & The City"
|
W.H. Auden
|
1962
|
|
What Is the What
|
Dave Eggers[7]
|
1988
|
|
[Letter to Charlemagne]
|
Alcuin of York
|
796 (circa)
|
|
"Praise of Learning"
|
Bertolt Brecht
|
1931
|
|
"The University of Eighth Avenue"
|
A.J. Liebling
|
1955
|
|
The Anatomy of Melancholy
|
Robert Burton
|
1621
|
|
"The Ph.D. Octopus"
|
William James
|
1903
|
|
Making the Corps
|
Thomas E. Ricks
|
1995
|
|
"Such, Such Were the Joys"
|
George Orwell[8]
|
1912 (circa)
|
|
Institutio Oratoria
|
Quintilian
|
90 (circa)
|
|
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
|
Frederick Douglass
|
1826
|
|
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
|
Mary McCarthy[9]
|
1924
|
|
Letters
|
Jerome
|
403
|
|
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
|
Salvador Dalí[10]
|
1926 (circa)
|
|
Soul on Ice
|
Eldridge Cleaver[11]
|
1960
|
|
The Clouds
|
Aristophanes
|
423 BC
|
|
Good-bye, Mr. Chips
|
James Hilton[12]
|
1918 (circa)
|
|
Satires
|
Juvenal
|
105 (circa)
|
|
Underworld
|
Don DeLillo[13]
|
1955
|
|
"Primer Class"
|
Elizabeth Bishop[14]
|
1916
|
|
Memoirs
|
Catherine the Great
|
1745 (circa)
|
|
"The School"
|
Donald Barthelme[15]
|
1981
|
|
Autobiography
|
John Stuart Mill[16]
|
1813 (circa)
|
|
Émile
|
Jean-Jacques Rousseau[17]
|
1762
|
|
A Discourse on Method
|
René Descartes
|
1637
|
|
Analects
|
Confucius
|
500 BC (circa)
|
|
Collected writings
|
Leonardo da Vinci
|
1490 (circa)
|
|
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
|
Anatole Broyard[18]
|
|
"Among School Children"
|
William Butler Yeats
|
1928
|
|
"On Pedagogy"
|
Immanuel Kant[19]
|
1803
|
|
Dhammapada
|
Siddharta Gautama
|
500 BC (circa)
|
|
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
|
Carl Gustav Jung[20]
|
1892 (circa)
|
|
"Notes of a Native Son"
|
James Baldwin
|
1934 (circa)
|
|
"The Ideals of America"
|
Woodrow Wilson
|
1901
|
|
Republic
|
Plato
|
378 BC (circa)
|
|
Born Red
|
Gao Yuan
|
1966
|
|
Villette
|
Charlotte Brontë[21]
|
1853
|
|
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
|
Diogenes Laertius
|
412 BC (circa)
|
|
Oliver Twist
|
Charles Dickens[22]
|
1838
|
|
Nurtured by Love
|
Shinichi Suzuki
|
1952 (circa)
|
|
One Writer's Beginnings
|
Eudora Welty[23]
|
1915 (circa)
|
|
The Story of My Life
|
Helen Keller
|
1887
|
|
"A History of the Past, Part II"[24]
|
Anders Hendriksson
|
2000
|
|
"The American Scholar"
|
Ralph Waldo Emerson[25]
|
1837
|
|
Letters from a Stoic
|
Seneca
|
64 (circa)
|
|
Schopenhauer as Educator
|
Friedrich Nietzsche[26]
|
1874
|
|
The Canterbury Tales
|
Geoffrey Chaucer
|
1390
|
|
This Side of Paradise
|
F. Scott Fitzgerald[27]
|
1914
|
|
Friday Night Lights
|
H.G. Bissinger[28]
|
1988
|
|
Beneath the Wheel
|
Hermann Hesse[29]
|
1906
|
|
Journals
|
Sylvia Plath[30]
|
1952
|
|
Stover at Yale
|
Owen Johnson[31]
|
1912
|
|
The Courtier
|
Baldassare Castiglione
|
1507
|
|
Geisha: A Life
|
Mineko Iwasaki[32]
|
1965 (circa)
|
|
A Room of One's Own
|
Virginia Woolf
|
1929
|
|
The Prince
|
Niccolò Machiavelli[33]
|
1513
|
|
"The American Boy"
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
1900
|
|
Boy: Tales of a Childhood
|
Roald Dahl
|
1929
|
|
Rameau's Nephew
|
Denis Diderot[34]
|
1772 (circa)
|
|
De Pueris Instituendis
|
Desiderius Erasmus
|
1506 (circa)
|
|
"The Lost Childhood"
|
Graham Greene[35]
|
1951
|
|
Family Instructions for the Yan Clan
|
Yan Zhitui
|
585 (circa)
|
|
"What is Man?"
|
Mark Twain[36]
|
1906
|
|
"Walking"
|
Henry David Thoreau[37]
|
1851
|
|
Consolation of Philosophy
|
Boethius
|
524 (circa)
|
|
The Education of Henry Adams
|
Henry Adams[38]
|
1854 (circa)
|
|