📚 Education

How people learn and how systems teach — schools, methods, and the endless argument about what education is meant to produce.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject education in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	NYC Quote	Booksource	2023	1,488
	Up from Slavery	Booker T. Washington	1900	430
	Democracy and Education	John Dewey	1916	184
	The mis-education of the Negro	Carter Godwin Woodson	1933	101
	On Cooking	Sarah R. Labensky	1994	74
	Metodo della pedagogia scientifica	Maria Montessori	1912	54
	I am Malala	Malala Yousafzai	2012	42
	How children fail	John Caldwell Holt	1964	41
	Educational research	L. R. Gay	1976	40
	Three cups of tea	Greg Mortenson	2006	38
	Experience and education	John Dewey	1938	37
	Deschooling Society	Ivan Illich	1970	36
	Motivation and learning strategies for college success	Myron H. Dembo	2000	35
	Comprehensive classroom management	Vernon Jones	1986	30
	How children learn	John Caldwell Holt	1967	29
	Multicultural Education	James A. Banks	1988	29
	The Abolition of Man	C. S. Lewis	1943	24
	Exceptional learners	Daniel P. Hallahan	1996	24
	Research methods in education	William Wiersma	1969	23
	Education For Critical Consciousness (Continuum Impacts)	Paulo Freire	1967	21
	The secret of childhood	Maria Montessori	1936	20
	Curriculum development	Jon Wiles	1979	20
	Pedagogia do Oprimido	Paulo Freire	1967	19
	Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism	Colin Baker	1996	18
	Teaching and learning with technology	Judy Lever-Duffy	2002	18
	Old-time schools and school-books	Clifton Johnson	1904	17
	Curriculum	John D. McNeil	1715	16
	Histoire de l'éducation dans l'antiquité	Henri-Irénée Marrou	1948	16
	Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education	Gerald L. Gutek	1996	16
	Research Methods in Education	Louis Cohen	2000	14

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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