My Country School Diary Author:Julia Weber Gordon First published in 1946, My Country School Diary remains a classic in educational literature, and has profound relevance today, when the American system of education is confronted on all sides by scathing criticism. The author is a woman who, having few of today's teaching aids to work with, used her ingenuity and resourcefulness to create a ric... more »her and more varied learning experience, one that would awaken interest and enthusiasm in children and that would give them a "sense that school was a part of the real world, not just a place where you did meaningless things today so that later you might go out and do some other meaningless things somewhere else."« less