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Voices In Time

1909 | Rome

Bench Pressed

Maria Montessori frees the child from the desk.More

Voices In Time

c. 1908 | Paris

Monstrous Errors

Teaching is more than a question of method.More

Voices In Time

1859 | Springfield, IL

Autodidact

What Abraham Lincoln learned.More

Voices In Time

2021 | Chicago

Agnes Callard Hopes for the Best

The social roots of learning and knowing.More

Voices In Time

1741 | London

Book Club

Samuel Richardson proposes a homeschooling experiment.More

Voices In Time

2021 | Austin, TX

Topic Sentence

Texas closes a subject to debate.More

Voices In Time

1901 | Bengal

Return to Earth

Rabindranath Tagore wants children to learn from experience.More

Voices In Time

c. 600 BC | Greece

Mnemonic Device

Setting a lesson to song.More

Voices In Time

1910 | Atlanta

Community Service

W.E.B. Du Bois makes the case for college.More

Voices In Time

2022 | San Francisco

How Can We Help?

Jeff Bryant reports on bringing the community into education.More

Voices In Time

c. 1915 | Nepenthe

Scientific Methods

“Let us discourse of education!”More

Voices In Time

2022 | New York City

The Omicron Curriculum

A dispatch from the front.More

Voices In Time

1909 | Radchester

Class Differences

Patrick Traherne learns on the job.More

Voices In Time

c. 1933 | Yuma, AZ

Homeroom

Cesar Chavez finds a cold welcome at school.More

Voices In Time

c. 1900 | New Haven, CT

Social Clearinghouse

Owen Johnson calls colleges “splendidly organized institutions for the prevention of learning.”More

Voices In Time

1827 | Hartford, CT

Trivial Pursuit

Catharine Beecher decries education for women as “irregular, superficial, and deficient.”More

Voices In Time

c. 533 | Ravenna

Spell-Check

Cassiodorus reminds us what teachers are owed.More

Voices In Time

1882 | Pune

Pernicious System

Jotirao Phule on high-class education.More

Voices In Time

1650 | London

Library Bard

John Dury outlines the responsibilities of librarians.More

Voices In Time

1798 | Stans

Study Hall

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi learns the art of teaching many together.More

Voices In Time

1968 | Berkeley

Radical Reform

Time’s up, declares the Afro-American Student Union.More

Voices In Time

c. 390 BC | Athens

False Promises

Satisfaction not quite guaranteed, Isocrates warns.More

Voices In Time

2021 | Virginia

What Garrett Epps Learned in School

The racist propaganda in history textbooks.More

Voices In Time

1791 | Paris

Common Good

Talleyrand wants education for all.More

Voices In Time

c. 1595 | Navarre

Stand to Reason

William Shakespeare commits to studying.More

Voices In Time

1901 | Chicago

Obvious Truths

Louis Sullivan designs an architectural kindergarten.More

Voices In Time

1917 | Great Lakes

Medical Residency

Mabel Powers follows the rabbit.More

Voices In Time

1977 | Pyongyang

Civics Class

Kim Il-Sung intensifies class education.More

Voices In Time

1961 | Havana

Revision Process

What the revolution taught Fidel Castro.More

Voices In Time

1904 | Chicago

Manual Labor

Margaret Haley is here to organize teachers.More

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