"Cambridge Essays on Education" by Arthur Christopher Benson is an idea-provoking collection that delves into the geographical regions of pedagogy, philosophy, and the profound implications of training. In this series of essays, Benson, an esteemed writer and educational, provides authoritative insights and considerate reflections on the purpose and nature of schooling. Benson's exploration transcends the traditional limitations of educational discourse, imparting a nuanced examination of the highbrow and ethical dimensions of getting to know. The essays delve into the position of schooling in shaping person, fostering important thinking, and contributing to the wider development of people inside society. Throughout the gathering, Benson's writing reflects a deep subject for the moral and cultural components of training. He contemplates the responsibilities of educators and the transformative energy of knowledge in shaping a higher society. Benson's prose isn't most effective intellectually stimulating but additionally reachable, making this series precious for educators, college students, and each person interested in the essential questions surrounding schooling. "Cambridge Essays on Education" stands as a testament to Benson's dedication to fostering a thoughtful and knowledgeable discourse on the standards that underpin a significant educational experience.

The Cambridge Companion to the Essay considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay from the moment it's named in the late sixteenth century to the present. What is an essay? What can the essay do or think or reveal or know that other literary forms cannot? What makes a piece of writing essayistic? How can essays bring about change? Over the course of seventeen chapters by a diverse group of scholars, The Companion reads the essay in relation to poetry, fiction, natural science, philosophy, critical theory, postcolonial and decolonial thinking, studies in race and gender, queer theory, and the history of literary criticism. This book studies the essay in its written, photographic, cinematic, and digital forms, with a special emphasis on how the essay is being reshaped and reimagined in the twenty-first century, making it a crucial resource for scholars, students, and essayists.

From the country's beginning, essayists in the United States have used their prose to articulate the many ways their individuality has been shaped by the politics, social life, and culture of this place. The Cambridge History of the American Essay offers the fullest account to date of this diverse and complex history. From Puritan writings to essays by Indigenous authors, from Transcendentalist and Pragmatist texts to Harlem Renaissance essays, from New Criticism to New Journalism: The story of the American essay is told here, beginning in the early eighteenth century and ending with the vibrant, heterogeneous scene of contemporary essayistic writing. The essay in the US has taken many forms: nature writing, travel writing, the genteel tradition, literary criticism, hybrid genres such as the essay film and the photo essay. Across genres and identities, this volume offers a stirring account of American essayism into the twenty-first century.

Originally published in 1920, these essays present and discuss subjects addressed in the Report of the Committee on Adult Education in 1919.

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A collection of newly commissioned essays provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson.