This study analyzes two influential texts on education written by two American authors, Ellen G. White (1827-1915) and John Dewey (1859-1959) through a linguistic lens. White and Dewey were both influential figures, whose ideas on education made a significant impact in the field of education in their respective communities. Increasingly more scholars are recognizing the benefits of incorporating a linguistic approach to the study of religion and other metaphysical subjects to gain a fuller understanding of a given topic. The current study employs LancsBox, a software package developed at Lancaster University for the analysis of language data and corpora to analyze White’s Education and Dewey’s Democracy and Education. It demonstrates how their ideas of education can be understood through keywords, collocations, semantic networks, and lexical bundles by using an analytical tool employed by corpus linguists.