Classical Education


The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education
The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education
The Abolition of Man
The Core
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The Lost Tools of Learning
The Case for Classical Christian Education
Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
The Republic
The Odyssey
Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition
Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education
Andrew Kern
Chinese culture had boys memorize the Dao for centuries. Many cultures commit their sacred, foundational texts to memory.... When you read a hundred words a hundred times they get woven into your soul.... Understanding is not as important. When we struggle with a text, it changes us. Why put things in memory? ... We memorize to contemplate, not to show off.
Andrew Kern

Ben Sasse
If a free people is going to be reproduced, it will require watering and revivifying and owning anew older traditions and awaking the curiosity in the soul of each citizen. National greatness will not be recovered via a mindless expansion of bureaucratized schooling. Seventy years ago, Dorothy Sayers wrote, 'Sure, we demand another grant of money, we postpone the school leaving age and plan to build bigger and better schools. We demand that teachers further slave conscientiously in and out of sc ...more
Ben Sasse, The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

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