Reading List: Education

Thanks to Charlie Green for this list! Essays about education, thinking about education and learning as broadly as possible: K-12, college, extracurriculars, what it means or is like to learn something (how to spit, or curse, or cook). Add your ideas for essays on education below! (Note: this list is for personal essays rather than argumentative essays about education issues, though one that blends those two would work). If possible, please include a link if the essay is online.

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• Alexie, Sherman, “Indian Education.”
• Baldwin, James, “A Talk To Teachers.”
• Biss, Eula, “Land Mines.”
• Bradley, William, “The Admiring Ignorant.”
• Dear Sugar, “The Future Has an Ancient Heart.”
• Douglass, Frederick, “Learning to Read and Write.“
• Dubus, Andre, “A Hemingway Story.”
• Edmundson, Mark, “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?“
• Levine, Mark, “How Difficult it is to Live.”
• Morano, Michele, “Grammar Lessons: The Subjunctive Mood.”
• Orwell, George, “Such, Such Were the Joys.”
• Rodriguez, Richard. The Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodridguez.
• Sedaris, David, “Me Talk Pretty One Day.”
• White, E.B. “Education.”
• Wright, Richard, “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow.”