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The well-educated mind : a guide to the classical education you never had : updated and expanded
Title:
The well-educated mind : a guide to the classical education you never had : updated and expanded
ISBN:
9780393080964
Physical Description:
510 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Part I. Beginning: preparing for classical education -- Chapter 1. Training your own mind: the classical education you never had -- Chapter 2. Wrestling with books: the act of reading -- Chapter 3. Keeping the journal: a written record of new ideas -- Chapter 4. Starting to read: final preparations -- Part II. Reading: jumping into the great conversation -- Chapter 5. The story of people: reading through history with the novel -- Chapter 6. The story of me: autobiography and memoir -- Chapter 7. The story of the past: the tales of historians (and politicians) -- Chapter 8. The world stage: reading through history with drama -- Chapter 9. History refracted: the poets and their poems -- Chapter 10. The cosmic story: understanding the Earth, the skies, and ourselves.
Summary:
"The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition."--Amazon.com.
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