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The default table ordering is the order in which selections appear in the issue.

Volume 1

Number 4: "Ways of Learning"

Voices in Time (main selections)

Work or excerpt	Author	Given date	Links
"The Disadvantages of an Elite Education", in the Summer 2008 edition of The American Scholar	William Deresiewicz	2008
The Court and Country	Nicholas Breton	1618	Author:Nicholas Breton https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002321393e?urlappend=%3Bseq=388%3Bownerid=28422511-387[1]
Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia		1818
Historia Calamitatum	Peter Abélard[2]	1130 (circa)
The Closing of the American Mind	Allan Bloom	1987
Muqaddimah	Ibn Khaldun	1375
The Idea of a University	Cardinal John Henry Newman	1854
Discipline and Punish	Michel Foucault	1975
Addresses to the German Nation	Johann Gottlieb Fichte[3]	1807
A Nation at Risk	(Commissioned by the US federal government)	1983
The Secret of Childhood	Maria Montessori	1936
"The School Days of an Indian Girl", in The Atlantic Monthly	Zitkala-Sa[4]	1884
[Letter to John Adams]	Abigail Adams	1776
Experience and Education	John Dewey	1938
Third Lateran Council	Third Lateran Council	1179
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez	Richard Rodriguez	1982
Twenty Years at Hull-House	Jane Addams	1910
"The Girls Who Go to Harvard", in the Harvard-Radcliffe yearbook	Faye Levine	1965
A Russian Diary	Anna Politkovskaya	2004
[Telegram to Dwight D. Eisenhower]	[Parents of the Little Rock Nine]	1957[5]
Cyropaedia	Xenophon[6]	580 BC (circa)
"Industrial Education for the Negro"	Booker T. Washington	1903
"Of Education"	John Milton	1644
"The Poet & The City"	W.H. Auden	1962
What Is the What	Dave Eggers[7]	1988
[Letter to Charlemagne]	Alcuin of York	796 (circa)
"Praise of Learning"	Bertolt Brecht	1931
"The University of Eighth Avenue"	A.J. Liebling	1955
The Anatomy of Melancholy	Robert Burton	1621
"The Ph.D. Octopus"	William James	1903
Making the Corps	Thomas E. Ricks	1995
"Such, Such Were the Joys"	George Orwell[8]	1912 (circa)
Institutio Oratoria	Quintilian	90 (circa)
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass	Frederick Douglass	1826
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood	Mary McCarthy[9]	1924
Letters	Jerome	403
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí	Salvador Dalí[10]	1926 (circa)
Soul on Ice	Eldridge Cleaver[11]	1960
The Clouds	Aristophanes	423 BC
Good-bye, Mr. Chips	James Hilton[12]	1918 (circa)
Satires	Juvenal	105 (circa)
Underworld	Don DeLillo[13]	1955
"Primer Class"	Elizabeth Bishop[14]	1916
Memoirs	Catherine the Great	1745 (circa)
"The School"	Donald Barthelme[15]	1981
Autobiography	John Stuart Mill[16]	1813 (circa)
Émile	Jean-Jacques Rousseau[17]	1762
A Discourse on Method	René Descartes	1637
Analects	Confucius	500 BC (circa)
Collected writings	Leonardo da Vinci	1490 (circa)
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir	Anatole Broyard[18]
"Among School Children"	William Butler Yeats	1928
"On Pedagogy"	Immanuel Kant[19]	1803
Dhammapada	Siddharta Gautama	500 BC (circa)
Memories, Dreams, Reflections	Carl Gustav Jung[20]	1892 (circa)
"Notes of a Native Son"	James Baldwin	1934 (circa)
"The Ideals of America"	Woodrow Wilson	1901
Republic	Plato	378 BC (circa)
Born Red	Gao Yuan	1966
Villette	Charlotte Brontë[21]	1853
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers	Diogenes Laertius	412 BC (circa)
Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens[22]	1838
Nurtured by Love	Shinichi Suzuki	1952 (circa)
One Writer's Beginnings	Eudora Welty[23]	1915 (circa)
The Story of My Life	Helen Keller	1887
"A History of the Past, Part II"[24]	Anders Hendriksson	2000
"The American Scholar"	Ralph Waldo Emerson[25]	1837
Letters from a Stoic	Seneca	64 (circa)
Schopenhauer as Educator	Friedrich Nietzsche[26]	1874
The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer	1390
This Side of Paradise	F. Scott Fitzgerald[27]	1914
Friday Night Lights	H.G. Bissinger[28]	1988
Beneath the Wheel	Hermann Hesse[29]	1906
Journals	Sylvia Plath[30]	1952
Stover at Yale	Owen Johnson[31]	1912
The Courtier	Baldassare Castiglione	1507
Geisha: A Life	Mineko Iwasaki[32]	1965 (circa)
A Room of One's Own	Virginia Woolf	1929
The Prince	Niccolò Machiavelli[33]	1513
"The American Boy"	Theodore Roosevelt	1900
Boy: Tales of a Childhood	Roald Dahl	1929
Rameau's Nephew	Denis Diderot[34]	1772 (circa)
De Pueris Instituendis	Desiderius Erasmus	1506 (circa)
"The Lost Childhood"	Graham Greene[35]	1951
Family Instructions for the Yan Clan	Yan Zhitui	585 (circa)
"What is Man?"	Mark Twain[36]	1906
"Walking"	Henry David Thoreau[37]	1851
Consolation of Philosophy	Boethius	524 (circa)
The Education of Henry Adams	Henry Adams[38]	1854 (circa)

Conversations

Selection	Author	Given date	Links
Nichomachean Ethics	Aristotle	350 BC (circa)
Of the Conduct of the Understanding	John Locke	1706
Autobiography	Benjamin Franklin	1733 (circa)
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1922
Republic	Plato	378 BC
The Closing of the American Mind	Allan Bloom	1987

Other interesting bits

• Questions from IQ tests given to US soldiers during World War 1 (page 175)

Notes

1. The work is titled The Courtier and the Countryman here.
2. The blurb notes Theologia.
3. The blurb notes An Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation.
4. The blurb notes editorship of American Indian Magazine.
5. Check public domain status
6. The blurb notes Anabasis and Symposium
7. The blurb notes A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
8. The blurb mentions editorship of Tribune beginning in 1943, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
9. The blurb notes work for The Nation and The New Republic, and novel The Company She Keeps.
10. The blurb notes work with Alfred Hitchcock on the dream sequence in Spellbound.
11. The blurb notes an essay in Ramparts magazine.
12. The blurb notes Catherine Herself, Lost Horizon, and screenplay for Mrs. Miniver winning an Oscar.
13. The blurb notes Americana, White Noise, and Libra.
14. The blurb notes a literary magazine founded at Vassar with Mary McCarthy, and the book of poems North & South.
15. The blurb notes short story collection Come Back, Dr. Caligari.
16. The blurb notes Principles of Political Economy, On Liberty, and Utilitarianism.
17. The blurb mentions Discourse on the Origins of Inequality and The Social Contract.
18. The blurb notes work as literary critic for New York Times and works Aroused by Books and Men, Women and Other Anticlimaxes.
19. The blurb notes first work, a book on the nature of kinetics published in 1746.
20. The blurb notes Psychology of the Unconscious and Man and His Symbols.
21. The blurb notes Jane Eyre outselling Wuthering Heights and Agnes Gray, all published in 1847.
22. The blurb notes editorship of magazine Bentley's Miscellany, wherein Oliver Twist was serialized.
23. The blurb notes Pulitzer Prize-winning The Optimist's Daughter.
24. The blurb notes it was originally published in the Winter 2000 issue of The Wilson Quarterly.
25. The blurb notes the book Nature, which helped start Transcendentalism.
26. The blurb notes The Birth of Tragedy, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and On the Genealogy of Morals.
27. The blurb notes Tender is the Night
28. The blurb notes Pulitzer Prize awarded in 1987 working for Philadelphia Inquirer, also article "Shattered Glass" in Vanity Fair.
29. The blurb notes Peter Camenzind and The Glass Bead Game.
30. The blurb notes The Bell Jar
31. The blurb notes war correspondent work for New York Times.
32. The blurb notes being interviewed for Memoirs of a Geisha.
33. The blurb notes Discourses on Livy.
34. The blurb notes work on Encyclopédie.
35. The blurb notes Our Man in Havana and The Confidential Agent.
36. The blurb notes work for Hannibal Journal.
37. The blurb notes Walden.
38. The blurb notes History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.