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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 — 7,550 ratings — published 1999
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,856 ratings — published 2003
Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.57 — 569 ratings — published 1981
The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.36 — 494 ratings — published 2013
The Abolition of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.12 — 42,061 ratings — published 1943
The Core (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,251 ratings — published 2010
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,431 ratings — published 1940
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,377 ratings — published 1991
The Lost Tools of Learning (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,181 ratings — published 1947
The Case for Classical Christian Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.10 — 923 ratings — published 2002
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.97 — 229,276 ratings — published -400
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,217,711 ratings — published -800
Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.22 — 468 ratings — published 2002
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.93 — 520,561 ratings — published -800
Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,371 ratings — published 2014
Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.19 — 454 ratings — published 2009
The Seven Laws of Teaching (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,191 ratings — published 1886
An Introduction to Classical Education (Latin Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.29 — 325 ratings — published 2004
Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America (Studies in Philanthropy, 30)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.95 — 137 ratings — published 2001
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.13 — 841 ratings — published 1937
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.00 — 76,033 ratings — published 400
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.91 — 309,890 ratings — published 1605
Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.93 — 368 ratings — published 2006
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.88 — 145,793 ratings — published -19
Beauty in the Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.22 — 440 ratings — published 2012
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,900,259 ratings — published 1813
For the Children's Sake (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.45 — 7,887 ratings — published 1984
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,418 ratings — published -430
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.09 — 175,730 ratings — published 1320
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.00 — 61,913 ratings — published -350
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,115,245 ratings — published 1866
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,703 ratings — published 2010
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.57 — 624,466 ratings — published 1851
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.11 — 947,892 ratings — published 1878
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.86 — 185,133 ratings — published 1667
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.59 — 301,827 ratings — published 1726
Repairing The Ruins: The Classical and Christian Challenge to Modern Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.14 — 288 ratings — published 1996
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.28 — 364,020 ratings — published 180
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 4.38 — 165 ratings — published 2007
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.39 — 399,413 ratings — published 1880
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 — 1,124 ratings — published 1998
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.40 — 163 ratings — published 1997
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.43 — 566,336 ratings — published 1899
The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.05 — 18,411 ratings — published 524
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,236 ratings — published -1800
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.17 — 371,364 ratings — published 1869
Leisure: The Basis of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,975 ratings — published 1948
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.53 — 239,758 ratings — published 1400
The Latin-Centered Curriculum: A Home Schooler's Guide to the Classical Curriculum (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-education)
avg rating 4.00 — 194 ratings — published 2006
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-education)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,064 ratings — published -411
“In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed." This is what should be sought in Christian schools, not just teaching, but effective teaching. Christian content alone is insufficient. It must be presented in a certain way, and that way cannot be reduced to technique. Nevertheless, God has graciously made it possible to bring people the truth by how the truth is presented.”
― Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning
― Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning
“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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