Books on Homeschooling Before 1970

This bibliography page is one of several bibliographies on the Learn in Freedom! site about homeschooling. Books listed here are books about homeschooling published before the year A.D. 1970. Other books about homeschooling are listed on the separate Web pages

English-languages Titles Before 1970

Poison Drops in the Federal Senate: The School Question from a Parental and Non-Sectarian Standpoint: Zach[ariah] Montgomery (Washington, DC: Gibson Bros., 1st ed. 1886) (photographic reprint said to be available from Amazon Books). Perhaps the earliest book-length work in the English language setting out the rationale for homeschooling rather than classroom schooling --although there is the epic poem by William Cowper (1731-1800), "Tirocinium: Or, a Review of Schools" (which was never published as a monograph, but only in collections) to consider in this regard.

[Last revision 9 March 2013]

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A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.
John Stuart Mill On Liberty (1859)

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