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McGuffey Readers

sold 122,000,000 copies and exerted profound moral and cultural effect in mid 19th-century America. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 509]
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But in fact, if you go back to McGuffey's Reader, or if you go back to the 1800's, if you go back to Abraham Lincoln, you find that much more common as we look at how do we evaluate not others, but ourselves--how you evaluate yourself.
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it assumes the past repeats itself, which hardly seems likely, and that the past can be understood by posterity as offering simple moral lessons--history as a kind of McGuffey's Reader writ large--when in fact history is almost never morally binary, but rather bears out Walter Benjamin's saturnine claim that every document of civilization is also a document of barbarism.
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"Is the Internet the most important educational event since McGuffey's reader? Who knows?" Converge, 2(4), 60-62 (April).
TRAINING TODAY'S TEACHERS FOR TOMORROW'S CLASSROOMS
The two books, read straight through, seem like hastily pasted-together collections of platitudes and pieties, part McGuffey's Reader and part nineteenth-century math and science exercise book.
What Your 1st Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good First-Grade Education
His poem "The Blue and the Gray," which first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1867, was printed in the hugely successful 1879 edition of McGuffey's Reader. Consequently, it was known by millions of schoolchildren.
The Blue and the Gray
"McGuffey's Reader," (Houghton Mifflin, n.d.), <http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ ah_058200_mcguffeysrea.htm>(accessed May 2, 2005).
Teaching about religion in a pluralistic society
Waldron cites Westling as writing of Becky dying "old, blind, raving and reciting passages from McGuffey's Reader." Westling actually wrote: "Like Becky Hand [sic], Mrs.
Eudora: A Writer's Life
"From 1836 to 1920, McGuffey's Readers were so widely used that they sold 122 million copies." (14)
Heroes and Villains in American Education
The equipment consisted of four desks about 10 feet long, two tables and two chairs, a few McGuffey's Readers, a few geographies, arithmetics, and ninth-grade grammars.
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McGuffey's readers and primers are two of the most well-known and widely used textbooks in the history of U.S.
Challenge and conflict to educate: the Brazos Agency Indian School
(20) Originals naturally vary in price and condition, but the entire revised 1879 collection may be downloaded or read free of charge from numerous online sources, including the contemporary Internet sites Project Gutenberg, McGuffey's Readers World, or The McGuffey Readers.
American education's beginnings

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