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Seven Essential Books for Guarding Grammar
The books I recommend here are not sacred texts, but they are good guides. Each performs a noble service: they protect the structure of thought and…
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Michael S. Rose
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The Formative Books of Abraham Lincoln
An education that bears striking resemblance to the curricula of American classical schools: narrow in volume, deep in substance, grounded in language…
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Michael S. Rose
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Seven Essential Books for Understanding Classical Education
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…
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A Cartography of the Inexhaustible: On Re-reading Great Literature
Some works of literature demand not just reading, but rereading—slowly and deliberately. They are not to be consumed and set aside but to be lived with…
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C.S. Lewis’s Advice to Young Writers
The teacher must insist that students read beyond themselves, that they wander into linguistic territories unknown, that they subject their prose to the…
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Michael S. Rose
Decoding America's Cultural Revolution
Christopher Rufo channels a voice akin to an unsentimental anthropologist documenting the rise and spread of an ideological pathogen.
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The Moral Landscape of Stories
Modern education has forgotten that stories are not mere reflections of a society’s morals, but active constructions that challenge readers to…
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False Flags of Censorship: Why School Library Standards Matter
Selecting books for a school library is an assertion of mission, a deliberate act of intellectual formation that serves the overarching aim of education…
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Michael S. Rose
Shakespeare's Syllabus for the Education of the Soul
The Bard's "Seven Ages of Man" is not merely a meditation on the passage of time; it is a reminder that wisdom is a journey through the shifting…
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Gentle Absurdities and Profound Simplicities
A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories transform into blueprints for living well among others, providing the scaffolding of an ethics as old and enduring…
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of the Imagination
Classical education finds in Tolkien a natural ally—a man who understood that the cultivation of wisdom requires not only logic and rhetoric but also…
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The Sublime Discipline of Wrestling with Ignorance
In a culture obsessed with shortcuts, students should not be passive consumers of knowledge but active participants who understand that true learning…
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Michael S. Rose
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