Following Tyack & Cuban I felt I needed something a bit more grounded in learning and less on schooling so I picked up Henry David Thoreau on Education (1999). When I ordered this book I did not realize what it was. This is not a cohesive work by Thoreau but rather a collection of all the best education-related quotes and passages in his work. Anyway, this made for somewhat light reading. Since this book is not sorted into chapters I will post everything in one post."Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize ... http://tl.gd/aioqghless than a minute ago via Twittelator 
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"Methinks there is equal need of a society for the diffusion of useful Ignorance—for what is most of our boasted so... http://tl.gd/aip0d7less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers." Thoreauless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"For what are classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, a... http://tl.gd/aipipvless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span." Thoreauless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"It is not all books that are as dull as their readers." Thoreauless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"It is time that we have uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and wome... http://tl.gd/aiq2d7less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"We seem to have forgotten that the expression, a liberal education, originally meant among the Romans one worthy o... http://tl.gd/ajeo5rless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him." Thoreauless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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RT @anderscj We shld seek to be fellow students w/ the pupil, & shld learn of, as well as w/ him, if we wld be most helpful to him --Thoreauless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet Reply
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"A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally" Thoreauless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"What does education often do!—It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook." Thoreauless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as his brain." Thoreauless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"It is only a reflecting mind that sees reflections." Thoreauless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"There is no such thing as purely objective observation. Your observation, to be interesting, i.e. to be significan... http://tl.gd/ak41m9less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as his brain.
Thanks for post..
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