The Eclectic Education Series (EES) is a set of textbooks which from roughly 1865 to 1915 held total dominance in the United States. They were the standard textbooks in many states and were chosen independently by over 10,000 school boards as their standard textbooks.

 The EES covered every topic. Some of the series are still household names almost a hundred years after they ceased being used. These include McGuffey's Readers and Ray's Arithmetics. There were many other extraordinary series in the EES such as Pinneo's Grammars, Thalheimer's Histories and Norton's Sciences that were used by countless millions of students.

 The books provided schools with a brand they could trust - the EES. The authors commissioned to do the various line of textbooks were at the top of their fields. No expenses were spared in preparing these incredible textbooks. Original art was commissioned for them, they were typeset with extraordinary care. They were refined and honed through multiple revisions over decades. And they all taught using the same basic principles. As an added bonus, they were often keyed off the cornerstone of the series, the McGuffey Readers, so that a book might say "Use with the 3rd Reader" to give some indication of its intended proficiency level.  

Millions of students in one-room schoolhouses got first-rate educations using the Eclectic Education Series - and went on to build and shape America.

 The result? A hundred million students in one-room schoolhouses got first-rate educations using the EES - and went on to build and shape America. People like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Theodore Roosevelt all used the EES.

 So why did the United States stop using them? It is a sad story: After WWI, John Dewey, the head of the Teachers College at Columbia University launched an all-out campaign to "reform" education. Dewey was a humanist, a socialist, and an atheist. He saw the McGuffey Readers and the entire EES as threats - they emphasized patriotism, traditional values, and most offensively, God. Dewey believed, in his own words, that public schools should be the "State established church." Dewey viciously attacked the textbooks of the day as "antiquated" and was able to successfully bring about their demise, as well as the demise of quality public education.

But now, they are back again. We have made the books available on cd so that you can print out the same books that made a country great. Nothing has been changed - not even the typesetting. And with them, you can arm your children with an education of the very highest quality.