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Volume 1 : G. Stanley Hall on Problems of Education

1. The pedagogy of the kindergarten

2. The educational value of dancing and pantomime

3. The pedagogy of music

4. The religious training of children and the sunday-school

5. Moral education

6. Children's lies: Their Psychology and pedagogy



Volume 2 : A N Whitehead on Aims of Education

1. The aims of Education

2. The rhythm of education

3. The rhythmic claims of freedom and discipline

4. Technical education and its relation to science and literature

5. The place of classics in education

6. The mathematical curriculum

7. Universityes and their function

8. The organisation of thought

9. the anatomy of some scientific ideas

10. Space, time and relativity


Volume 3 : Johan Ruskin on Education Theories

1. Ruskin's Education

2. Interest in education activities

3. Ruskin as a teacher

4. Principles of education

5. Psychological and pedagogical ideas

6. Encouragement of May Day festivals

7. Schools of St. George

8. Libraries and museums

9. Views on the education of women

10. Influence



Volume 4 : John Dewey on Democracy and Education

1. Education as a necessity of life

2. Education as a social function

3. Education as direction

4. Education as Growth

5. Preparation, unfolding, and formal discipline

6. Education as Conservative and progressive

7. The democratic conception in education

8. Aims in education

9. Natural development and social efficiency as aims

10. Interest and discipline

11. Experience and thinking

12. Thinking in education

13. The nature of method

14. The nature of subject matter

15. Play and work in the curriculum

16. The significance of geography and history

17. Science in the course of study

18. Educational values

19. Labor and leisure

20. Physical and social studies: naturalism and humanism

21. The individual and the world

22. Vocational aspects of education

23. Philosophy of education

24. Theories of knowledge

25. Theories of morals



Volume 5 : Nicholas Hans on Comparative Education

1. Definition and scope of comparative education


Natural Factors


2. The racial factor

3. The linguistic factor

4. Geographic and economic factors


Religious factors

5. Religious traditions of Europe

6. The catholic tradition

7. The Anglican tradition

8. The Puritan Tradition

Secular factors

9. Humanism

10. Socialism

11. nationalism

12. Democracy and education


Education in four democracies

13. The educational system of England

14. The educational system of the U S A

15. The Educational system of France

16. The educational system of the USSR