Would You Believe...In 1400, Reading Could Save Your Life?!: And Other Academic Advantages

Author: Richard Platt

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  • : $24.99 NZD
  • : 9780199118700
  • : Oxford University Press
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  • : 01 October 2009
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Barcode 9780199118700
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The next title in the Would You Believe series charts the growth and development of education and learning throughout history. Readers will learn about the often painful and frequently distasteful educational practices that our ancestors employed, and explore some unusual teaching methods used today. Find out about the Neolithic cave school, the English charity boarding school in Dickensian times, where pupils shared their boarding rooms with chickens and turkeys, and the one-room school in Nebraska where the handful of pupils ride to school on horses.

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A fascinating journey into the evolution of things in our everyday lives. Would You Believe...in 1400, Reading Could Save Your Life?! looks at the history of learning from around the world.