Admit it: you're curious about this thing called classical education, but you can't quite put your finger on what it is. Fret no more! I've put together a starter packet of recommended reads.
Wow . This is fantastic . Thank you ! And it’s timely too as the hard right attacks and is attempting to defund “ whole “ child education . This has given me plenty of resources to present a case for a classical education at our small town local board of education . Thank you thank you !!!!!!
Thanks for this! Looking forward to reading "How to think like Shakespeare" -
"Newstok shows how mental play emerges through work, creativity through imitation, autonomy through tradition, innovation through constraint, and freedom through discipline. It was these practices, and a conversation with the past—not a fruitless obsession with assessment—that nurtured a mind like Shakespeare's. And while few of us can hope to approach the genius of the Bard, we can all learn from the exercises that shaped him." Sign me up.
Very good list! I’d love to hear your thoughts on the Classical Christian education movement.
Controversial politics aside, my time in it had Dorothy Sayers’ The Lost Tools of Learning as the framework. Obviously there was also a level of engagement with Wilson’s follow up.
But when I saw your list had neither, I began to get worried that my experience with classical education is sort of a heretical (in the early, less pejorative sense) offshoot, rather than a genuine revival.
Wow . This is fantastic . Thank you ! And it’s timely too as the hard right attacks and is attempting to defund “ whole “ child education . This has given me plenty of resources to present a case for a classical education at our small town local board of education . Thank you thank you !!!!!!
Thanks for this! Looking forward to reading "How to think like Shakespeare" -
"Newstok shows how mental play emerges through work, creativity through imitation, autonomy through tradition, innovation through constraint, and freedom through discipline. It was these practices, and a conversation with the past—not a fruitless obsession with assessment—that nurtured a mind like Shakespeare's. And while few of us can hope to approach the genius of the Bard, we can all learn from the exercises that shaped him." Sign me up.
Good shout on Scott Newstok!
https://www.juliangirdham.com/blog/how-to-think-like-shakespeare
Thank you for sharing.
Guroian’s book was pivotal in my wife’s and my decision to homeschool along classical lines.
Very good list! I’d love to hear your thoughts on the Classical Christian education movement.
Controversial politics aside, my time in it had Dorothy Sayers’ The Lost Tools of Learning as the framework. Obviously there was also a level of engagement with Wilson’s follow up.
But when I saw your list had neither, I began to get worried that my experience with classical education is sort of a heretical (in the early, less pejorative sense) offshoot, rather than a genuine revival.
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Terrific list!