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Classical Education Books
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The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,492 ratings — published 1999
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,812 ratings — published 2003
Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.58 — 543 ratings — published 1981
The Core (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,209 ratings — published 2010
The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.37 — 475 ratings — published 2013
The Abolition of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,407 ratings — published 1943
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,355 ratings — published 1991
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,716 ratings — published 1940
The Lost Tools of Learning (ebook)
by (shelved 24 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,123 ratings — published 1947
The Case for Classical Christian Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.10 — 901 ratings — published 2002
Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.22 — 457 ratings — published 2002
The Seven Laws of Teaching (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,159 ratings — published 1886
Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,310 ratings — published 2014
Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.20 — 438 ratings — published 2009
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.97 — 224,957 ratings — published -400
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,184,219 ratings — published -700
An Introduction to Classical Education (Latin Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.28 — 314 ratings — published 2004
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.13 — 830 ratings — published 1937
Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America (Studies in Philanthropy, 30)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.95 — 136 ratings — published 2001
Beauty in the Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.22 — 427 ratings — published 2012
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.93 — 506,866 ratings — published -800
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,678 ratings — published 2010
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.91 — 303,853 ratings — published 1615
Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.93 — 355 ratings — published 2006
For the Children's Sake (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.45 — 7,572 ratings — published 1984
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.00 — 73,662 ratings — published 400
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,762,729 ratings — published 1813
Repairing The Ruins: The Classical and Christian Challenge to Modern Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.13 — 284 ratings — published 1996
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.87 — 142,833 ratings — published -19
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.08 — 171,389 ratings — published 1320
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.41 — 155 ratings — published 1997
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,069,277 ratings — published 1866
The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.40 — 163 ratings — published 2007
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.56 — 613,529 ratings — published 1851
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.59 — 297,973 ratings — published 1726
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,428 ratings — published -430
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.10 — 926,078 ratings — published 1878
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,049 ratings — published 1998
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.85 — 181,694 ratings — published 1667
Leisure: The Basis of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,771 ratings — published 1948
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.28 — 341,067 ratings — published 180
The Latin-Centered Curriculum: A Home Schooler's Guide to the Classical Curriculum (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.99 — 192 ratings — published 2006
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.00 — 59,726 ratings — published -350
The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,822 ratings — published 524
The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.50 — 163 ratings — published 1999
The Idea of a University (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.10 — 829 ratings — published 1873
Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.88 — 363 ratings — published 2001
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.43 — 556,221 ratings — published 1899
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,334,293 ratings — published 1885
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.88 — 426,237 ratings — published 1838
“Man may not be the colossus some secular spirits would have him be, armed with the strength and wisdom of the gods, but he has partaken of ambrosia. He has squinted trough the veil and seen just enough of divinity to measure himself by it. The Humanist knows both the strengths and the frailties of man. He strives. But he knows the bounds of his striving.......
Visions and ideals need a path, a way, a roadmap people can use as to arrive at those better, more permanent things that the wise are always seeing dimly whenever they strained their eyes. So man turned a mirror on himself, looked soberly, and-one day-began to write accounts of the discoveries made on the grandest odyssey of them all: the journey to the core of the human mind and soul. The grateful among us read them.”
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Visions and ideals need a path, a way, a roadmap people can use as to arrive at those better, more permanent things that the wise are always seeing dimly whenever they strained their eyes. So man turned a mirror on himself, looked soberly, and-one day-began to write accounts of the discoveries made on the grandest odyssey of them all: the journey to the core of the human mind and soul. The grateful among us read them.”
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“We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand more, and ultimately, it is to be hoped, to act according to our greater wisdom.”
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