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Voices In Time

c. 500 BC | Lu

Seek and Ye Shall Find

Confucius on the hierarchy of knowledge. More

Voices In Time

1390 | London

Gentleman and Scholar

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Oxford man.More

Voices In Time

c. 585 | Chang’an

Polished Gold

There is no reward without effort.More

Voices In Time

c. 1830 | Baltimore

Taking the Ell

Frederick Douglass learns the ABC’s.More

Voices In Time

1983 | Washington, DC

Rising Tide of Mediocrity

America is losing its competitive edge.More

Voices In Time

1803 | Königsberg

Class Distinctions

Kantian child-rearing, explained. More

Voices In Time

2008 | New Haven

Trimming the Ivy

William Deresiewicz finds a gap in his education.More

Voices In Time

1988 | Odessa

Under the Lights

Getting schooled in Texas high school football.More

Voices In Time

403 | Bethlehem

Training a Soul

Looking godly is harder than it seems. More

Voices In Time

1837 | Cambridge, MA

Man Thinking

Emerson challenges bookworms to leave the library.More

Voices In Time

1776 | Boston

Equal Opportunity

Abigail Adams remembers America’s daughters.More

Voices In Time

1901 | Princeton, NJ

Equal Education

Woodrow Wilson on what makes America special.More

Voices In Time

1644 | London

Misspent Youth

John Milton repairs the ruins of education.More

Voices In Time

c. 1813 | London

Reading List

John Stuart Mill turns the page. More

Voices In Time

c. 1854 | Cambridge, MA

Negative Standard

Henry Adams on Harvard College.More

Voices In Time

c. 796 | Tours

Sowing the Seeds of Wisdom

Alcuin of York begs for books.More

Voices In Time

1618 | England

What Need We More of Learning?

In praise of a more practical education.More

Voices In Time

1903 | Tuskegee

Pragmatism

Booker T. Washington on rediscovering industrious habits.More

Voices In Time

1960 | San Quentin

Meeting a Guru

Eldridge Cleaver’s behind-bars guide.More

Voices In Time

1981 | New York City

Teaching Philosophy

Donald Barthelme’s school is…different.More

Voices In Time

1900 | Albany

Making a Man

Theodore Roosevelt’s virtues for the American boy.More

Voices In Time

1621 | Oxford

Homers Without an Achilles

Great men have always depended on the kindness of scholars.More

Voices In Time

1903 | Cambridge, MA

Uprooting the Grove of Academe

William James confronts the PhD octopus.More

Voices In Time

1906 | New York City

Mark Twain Defines Man the Machine

We are all but sewing machines.More

Voices In Time

1818 | Charlottesville

Thomas Jefferson Opens a School

Education is the foundation of a nation.More

Voices In Time

1838 | London

Training a Thief

Oliver Twist learns the ropes. More

Voices In Time

1853 | Villette

Live Demonstration

Charlotte Brontë shows us who’s the boss.More

Voices In Time

1957 | Little Rock

Calling in the Troops

Eisenhower supports the students in Little Rock.More

Voices In Time

c. 1506 | Italy

Bestiary

Erasmus lets nature take its course.More

Voices In Time

1851 | Concord

Useful Ignorance

Thoreau contemplates the beauty of unknowing.More

Voices In Time

1179 | Rome

Free Speech

The Catholic Church promotes literacy.More

Voices In Time

1854 | Dublin

Empire of Reason

John Henry Newman’s idea of a university.More

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