How to Study and Teaching How to Study

A schoolboy recites his history lesson word for word—then stops at the last word on the first page. Frank M. McMurry has seen stranger ways to study, including a girl who repeats every sentence five times.

Writing in the early twentieth century, McMurry turns these classroom memories into a challenge to teachers and learners alike: what does it actually mean to study? In a test of 842 children, only a small number could identify a lesson’s subject or most important parts; many simply copied its facts or offered no clear account of what they had done. And the teachers guiding them often had never been taught how to study, either. If memorizing and copying are not enough, what should a student do to truly master a lesson?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.