1. Literary wellsprings of our craft

   • Jerome A. Stein
   • Byron J. Schneider

   Introduction Pages: 3 - 4

2. A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public

   • Jonathan Swift

   Articles Pages: 5 - 12

3. Happiness in childhood

   • Jean Jacques Rousseau

   Articles Pages: 13 - 16

4. I begin life on my own account, and don't like it

   • Charles Dickens

   Articles Pages: 17 - 30

5. The problem of the children; waifs of the city's slums

   • Jacob A. Riis

   Articles Pages: 31 - 40

6. Socialized education

   • Jane Addams

   Articles Pages: 41 - 53

7. The school as a social settlement

   • John Dewey
   • Evelyn Dewey

   Articles Pages: 55 - 65

8. Selection fromComing of Age in Samoa

   • Margaret Mead

   Articles Pages: 67 - 76

9. Prologue

   • Ralph Ellison

   Articles Pages: 77 - 85