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Further Reading About Classical Education
Articles/Essays:
- Cheryl Lowe - How Latin Develops the Mind
- “The Lost Tools of Learning”, Dorothy Sayers
- An Introduction to Classical Education: A Guide for Parents, Christopher Perrin
Books:
- The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them, E.D. Hirsch Jr.
- Why Knowledge Matters, E.D. Hirsch Jr.
- The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to be an Education Human Being
- Climbing Parnassus
- Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
- Aristotle for Everybody, Mortimer J. Adler
- Climbing Parnassus
Recommended Classics
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
- The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis
- Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
Recommended Podcasts
- Hillsdale Dialogues
- Tim Keller
Created by Dr. Christopher Perrin for Classicalu.com Subscribers:
Introductory Books
- An Introduction to Classical Education: A Guide for Parents (C. Perrin)
- Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning (Douglas Wilson)
- The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Susan W. Bauer & Jessie Wise)
- The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education (Kevin Clark & Ravi Jain)
- Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education (David Hicks)
- Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning (Charles Evans & Robert Littlejohn)
- For the Children’s Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School (Susan Schaeffer Macaulay)
- Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America (Andrew Kern & Gene Veith)
History of Classical Education
- The Republic (Plato)
- Politics (Aristotle)
- Institutes of Oratory (or The Education of an Orator) (Quintillian)
- Early Christianity and Greek Paideia (W. Jaeger)
- A History of Education in Antiquity (H.I. Marrou)
- Education in Ancient Rome (Stanley R. Bonner)
- The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture (Jean Leclercq)
- How the Irish Saved Civilization (Thomas Cahill)
- The Rise of the Universities (Charles Homer Haskins)
- A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the 21st Century (Oliver DeMille)
- The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being (Richard Gamble, editor)
Modern Education
- The Abolition of Man: How Education Shapes Man’s Sense of Morality (C.S. Lewis)
- Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform (Diane Ravitch)
- The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957 (Lawrence A. Cremin)
- The Schools We Need: And Why We Don’t Have Them (E.D. Hirsch Jr.)
- Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (Mortimer J. Adler)
- American Education: A History (Wayne J. Urban & Jennings L. Wagoner, Jr.)
- The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need–and What We Can Do about It (Tony Wagner)
Philosophy of Education
- The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education (Kevin Clark & Ravi Jain)
- The Abolition of Man: How Education Shapes Man’s Sense of Morality (C.S. Lewis)
- De Doctrina Christiana (On Christian Doctrine or On Christian Teaching) (Augustine)
- Great Ideas from the Great Books (Mortimer Adler)
- Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty (Stephen Turley)
- Plato: The Great Philosopher-Educator (David Diener)
- The Idea of a University (John Henry Newman)
- Ideas Have Consequences (Richard M. Weaver)
Mathematics and Science
- A Mathematician’s Lament (Paul Lockhart)
- Measurement (Paul Lockhart)
- Innumeracy (John Allen Paulos)
- The Divine Challenge: On Matter, Mind, Math, and Meaning (John Byl)
- Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education (Stratford Caldecott)
- The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy (Nancy Pearcey & Charles Thaxton)
Virtue and Embodiment
- The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods (A.G. Sertillanges)
- Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life at a Christian College (James W. Sire)
- Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (James K.A. Smith)
- You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K.A. Smith)
- Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classical Stories Awaken a Child’s Moral Imagination (Vigen Guroian)
- John Milton: Classical Learning and the Progress of Virtue (Grant Horner)
Scholé and Contemplation
- Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation (Josef Pieper)
- Leisure: The Basis of Culture (Josef Pieper)
- Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler’s Guide to Unshakable Peace (Sarah Mackenzie)
- Charlotte Mason’s Original Homeschooling Series: Home Education (vol. 1) (Charlotte Mason)
Pedagogy, Art of Teaching
- De Doctrina Christiana (On Christian Doctrine or On Christian Teaching) (Augustine)
- The Art of Teaching (Gilbert Highet)
- Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning (Jacques Barzun)
- The Seven Laws of Teaching (John Milton Gregory)
- Why Students Don’t Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom (Daniel T. Willingham)
- Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education (James Taylor)
- Socratic Circles: Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in Middle and High School (Matt Copeland)
- Teach Like a Champion: Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College (Doug Lemov)
Dr. Perrin’s Top 10 List: 101 Version
- An Introduction to Classical Education: A Guide for Parents (C. Perrin)
- The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education (Kevin Clark & Ravi Jain)
- The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being (Richard Gamble, editor)
- How the Irish Saved Civilization (Thomas Cahill)
- A Mathematician’s Lament (Paul Lockhart)
- The Abolition of Man: How Education Shapes Man’s Sense of Morality (C.S. Lewis)
- The Schools We Need: And Why We Don’t Have Them (E.D. Hirsch Jr.)
- Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (James K. A. Smith)
- Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation (Josef Pieper)
- The Seven Laws of Teaching (John Milton Gregory)
Dr. Perrin’s Top 10 List: 102 Version
- The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education (Kevin Clark & Ravi Jain)
- Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education (David Hicks)
- The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being (Richard Gamble, editor)
- De Doctrina Christiana (On Christian Doctrine or On Christian Teaching) (Augustine)
- A Mathematician’s Lament (Paul Lockhart)
- The Abolition of Man: How Education Shapes Man’s Sense of Morality (C.S. Lewis)
- Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform (Diane Ravitch)
- Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (James K. A. Smith)
- Leisure: The Basis of Culture (Josef Pieper)
- The Seven Laws of Teaching (John Milton Gregory)