Chapters 3 and 5

An educational method attributed to the Greek philosopher Socrates by which the teacher encourages the student's discovery of truth by asking leading and stimulating questions

Chinese philosopher, government official, and educator who devised an ethical system still observed in China and other Asian cultures

Primary institutions that provide instruction in students' common language, in contrast to schools that instructed in classical language such as Greek and Latin

Primary institutions that provide instruction in students' common language, in contrast to schools that instructed in classical language such as Greek and Latin

The leading theory and general method of education during the Renaissance the study of the classical Greek and Roman texts with an emphasis on their human centered meaning

Religion founded by Mohammed

a two-year teacher-education institution popular in the 19th century

the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century elementary school of New England that educated children living in a designated area

a college preparatory school of the colonial era that emphasized Latin and Greek languages and studies

The strategy that immigrant children should be schooled into the dominant "American" culture by learning to speak and read the English language, the values of hard work and punctuality prescribed by the Protestant ethic and respect for the laws of the US