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Click on the web address for a complete list of the books available, or here for a selection of the books with some brief descriptions.

www.vidyaonline.net/bookshelf/thought.asp has a number of books available to download. These are some of the most interesting.

Letter To A Teacher

By The School of Barbiana
Translated by Nora Rossi and Tom Cole

Barbiana is a remote village in Italy where the parish priest, ran a school which it was hard to get the children to leave in the evenings.

Democracy And Education: An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Education

By John Dewey

King of Children

By Betty Jean Liffton

A biography of Janusz Korczak, who ran the Jewish Orphanage in Warsaw and died with his orphans in Treblinka

The Idiot Teacher - A Book about Prestolee School and its Headmaster E. F. O'Neill

By Gerard Holmes

Prestolee was the only free state school in the UK to last more than a few years. It lasted from 1918 to 1951.

Deschooling Society

By Ivan Illich

It is not so much that Illich wanted to get rid of schools, he just wanted to make society less like an old-fashioned school.

The Education of the Child

By Ellen Key

Ellen Key wrote at the beginning of the 20th century, full of ideas that still seem ahead of their time.

The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy As Applied To Child Education In "The Children's Houses"

By Maria Montessori

Summerhill – A Radical Approach To Child Rearing

By A. S. Neill

Totto-Chan - The Little Girl at the Window

By Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, translated by Dorothy Britton

Respect for the child in Japan before the second world war.