Well-Educated Mind A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

Name: Well-Educated Mind A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
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ISBN: 9780393050943

ISBN-10: 0393050947

ISBN-13: 9780393050943

Edition: 2003

Authors: Susan Wise Bauer

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Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. In her previous book, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children, and that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In this new book, Bauer takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers who want both enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading.The Well-Educated Mind…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.60" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.694



Acknowledgments



Beginning: Preparing for Classical Education



Training Your Own Mind: The Classical Education You Never Had



Wrestling with Books: The Act of Reading



Keeping the Journal: A Written Record of New Ideas



Starting to Read: Final Preparations



Reading: Jumping into the Great Conversation



The Story of People: Reading through History with the Novel



The Story of Me: Autobiography and Memoir



The Story of the Past: The Tales of Historians (and Politicians)



The World Stage: Reading through History with Drama



History Refracted: The Poets and Their Poems


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