Education

Success
by Baron Max Aitken Beaverbrook
A great number of letters have reached me from young men who seem to think that the road to success is barred to them owing to defects in their education. To them I would send this message: Never believe that success cannot come your way because you have

Studies in Pessimism
by Arthur Schopenhauer
The human intellect is said to be so constituted that general ideas arise by abstraction from particular observations, and therefore come after them in point of time. If this is what actually occurs, as happens in the case of a man who has to depend

Health and Education
by Rev. Charles Kingsley
Fresh from the Marbles of the British Museum, I went my way through London streets. My brain was still full of fair and grand forms; the forms of men and women whose every limb and attitude betokened perfect health, and grace, and power, and a self-posses

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women
by George S. Weaver
Education, strictly speaking, covers the whole area of life. It is the word which means all God asks of us, all we owe to him, the world, and ourselves - that great word which expresses the sum total of human duty.

The Family and it's Members
by Anna Garlin Spencer
To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge, and we judge the value of any training solely by reference to this end. For complete living we must know in what way to treat the body, in what way to treat the mind

Religious Education in the Family
by Henry F. Cope
The ills of the modern home are symptomatic. Divorce, childless families, irreverent children, and the decadence of the old type of separate home life are signs of forgotten ideals, lost motives, and insufficient purposes.

How to Use Your Mind
by Harry D. Kitson, Ph.D.
The kindly reception accorded to the first edition of this book has confirmed the author in his conviction that such a book was needed, and has tempted him to bestow additional labor upon it. The chief changes consist in the addition of two new chapters

The American Child
by Elizabeth McCracken
An elderly woman was talking to me not long ago about her childhood. 'No, my dear, I did not have a governess,' she said, in answer to my questionings. 'Neither did I attend the public schools, though I lived in the city. I went to a private school.

Parent and Child, Volume III
by Mosiah Hall
There are four great agencies or factors concerned in the training and education of the child: these are, the home, the school, the church, and the state, or society. Of these, the home ought to be the most helpful since it is the most important.

Treatise on Parents and Children
by George Bernard Shaw
To my mind, a glance at the subjects now taught in schools ought to convince any reasonable person that the object of the lessons is to keep children out of mischief, and not to qualify them for their part in life as responsible citizens of a free State.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
by Mary Wollstonecraft
The good effects resulting from attention to private education will ever be very confined, and the parent who really puts his own hand to the plow, will always, in some degree be disappointed, till education becomes a grand national concern.

Work Accomplished
How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less
by Cal Newport
Looking to jumpstart your GPA? Most college students believe that straight A's can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don't study harder - they study smarter.

Why College Makes No Sense
Real World Careers: Why College Is Not the Only Path to Becoming Rich
by Betsy Cummings
A Great Career-Without a College Degree! Possible? Absolutely! Today's job market has lots of room for people who leave school early or don't plan to go to college at all.

The $500,000 Question
The Kindergarten Wars: The Battle to Get into America's Best Private Schools
by Alan Eisenstock
Honest, funny, suspenseful, and emotional, this is the first nonfiction book ever to take you inside all aspects of the private-school application process. Alan Eisenstock followed several families across the country from their first school tours

Welcome To Your New Home
The College Dorm Survival Guide: How to Survive and Thrive in Your New Home Away from Home
by Julia DeVillers
The day you enter your college dorm, your life changes. This is no ordinary experience you're signing up for. Think about it. It's bizarre. A whole lot of people, pretty much the same age, all living together.

Introduction
Roadblocks to Learning: Understanding the Obstacles that Can Sabotage Your Child's Academic Success
by Lawrence J. Greene
This comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide explains more than seventy types of learning impediments and counterproductive behaviors - including dyslexia, depression, test-taking phobias, ineffectual problem solving, teacher-child conflict

Elementary School Success Helps Keep Kids Drug Free
by SAMHSA
Children in elementary school learn that part of being a success is doing well in the classroom. But there's another benefit to school success: Kids who do well in school are more likely to be drug free.

The Rising Costs of Education
Generation Debt: Take Control of Your Money - A How-to Guide
by Carmen Wong Ulrich
Why does it cost so damn much if it's basically a requirement? We can go to public high schools on our parents' tax dollars because it's required. So why is a college education getting exorbitantly - almost prohibitively - expensive the more we need it?

'Cut Yer Thumb er Finger Off'
Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision
by Peter Irons, Ph.D., J.D.
These stories of former slaves, recorded in the 1930s by interviewers from the Federal Writers' Project, tell in poignant words of the struggle for education of people the Supreme Court described in its Dred Scott decision of 1857 as beings

Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters
All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters
by Karen Stabiner
A friend with a daughter older than my own was trying to make an impossible decision. Should she send the girl to a coed school for seventh grade, or to an all-girls school? She had no idea what a girls' school was like; she and everyone she knew had gone