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Would You Believe...in 1400, reading could save your life?!: and Other Academic Advantages
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Book Description
In this interesting book, 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 Nebra... More
Book Information
PublisherOxford University Press Inc
BindingPaperback
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages48
ISBN-100199118701
ISBN-13978-0199118700
Publication Date05/01/2015
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About Richard Platt (Author) : Richard Platt is a published author and an illustrator of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Richard Platt include Moon Landing: Apollo 11 40th Anniversary Pop-Up... more
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