Originally published in 1889, this text is “an examination of all that [Luther wrote] about education” and an “attempt to arrange in … systematic form his educational opinions and principles.” Painter’s thorough study of Luther’s ideas about education also includes four chapters of helpful historical introduction to the time in which Luther lived. Painter explores how Luther’s writings on education are not only significant to the study of Luther himself, but also crucial to the study of educational progress, as “Luther brought about as important a reformation in education as in religion.”