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1	The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home more books like this by Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer add to wishlist This guide seeks to help parents supplement their child's education at home. It instructs the parent on how to give the child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through to high school - one that will train them to read, think, and understand. see all copies from $4.46! new only from $25.00! \| signed copies \| SVS
2	This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life more books like this by David Foster Wallace add to wishlist How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The ... see all copies from $7.94! new only from $7.94! \| SVS
3	The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had more books like this by Susan Wise Bauer add to wishlist This book is a wonderful resource for anyone wishing to explore and develop the mind's capacity to read and comprehend the greatest works in fiction, autobiography, history, poetry, and drama. It offers brief, entertaining histories of the five literary genres, accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. see all copies from $12.30! new only from $15.81! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home more books like this by Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise add to wishlist Offers step-by-step instruction on how to enable an academically rigorous, comprehensive education for children from preschool through high school, outlining a classical educational model while providing book lists, ordering information, and Internet links. see all copies from $10.09! new only from $17.95! \| SVS
5	Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education more books like this by Martha Craven Nussbaum add to wishlist How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for the truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender and nation? In this book the author argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such "citizens of the world" in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Nussbaum's ... see all copies from $6.78! new only from $17.71! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning more books like this by Robert Littlejohn, Charles T Evans add to wishlist To succeed in the world today, students need an education that equips them to recognize current trends, to be creative and flexible to respond to changing circumstances, to demonstrate sound judgment to work for society's good, and to gain the ability to communicate persuasively. This book argues for returning to the classical liberal arts ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $8.84! \| SVS
7	College: We Make the Road by Walking more books like this by Margit Misangyi Watts add to wishlist A core text for a course in Freshman Orientation/Student Success; a supplementary text for courses dealing with information literacy or traditional college skills. Unlike other first-year experience books-which focus on the "what" and "how" of skill development and adjustment to college life-this innovative text connects the personal to the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| SVS
8	Norms & nobility : a treatise on education more books like this by David V. Hicks add to wishlist 42.00 see all copies from $29.95! new only from $51.47!
9	Paideia Problems and Possibilities more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985 more books like this by Steven Brint, Jerome Karabel add to wishlist In the twentieth century, Americans have increasingly looked to the schools--and, in particular, to the nation's colleges and universities--as guardians of the cherished national ideal of equality of opportunity. With the best jobs increasingly monopolized by those with higher education, the opportunity to attend college has become an integral ... see all copies from $11.99! new only from $25.00! \| SVS
11 view cover	Schools of Hope: Developing Mind and Character in Today's Youth more books like this by Douglas H Heath add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education more books like this by Roger Kimball add to wishlist Since Tenured Radicals first appeared in 1990, it has achieved a stature as the leading critique of the ways in which the humanities are now taught and studied in American universities. Tenchant and witty, it lays bare the sham of what now passes for serious academic pursuit in too many circles. In this new third edition, completely reset, Roger ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.28! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Prescribing the Life of the Mind: An Essay on the Purpose of the University, the Aims of Liberal Education, the Competence of Citizens, and the Cultivation of Practical Reason more books like this by Charles W Anderson add to wishlist Anderson aims to show here how the ideal of "practical reason" can reconcile academia's research aims with public expectations for universities: the preparation of citizens, the training of professionals and the communication of a cultural inheritance. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.75! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Teacher Self: The Practice of Humanistic Education more books like this by Jerome S Allender add to wishlist Based on Temple University's course, "The Art and Science of Teaching", this is a text about the practical side of humanistic education. It intends to draw the student-teacher into a series of narratives that develop as scenes from a play. As the drama unfolds, the reader becomes part of a classroom where the teacher's strategy shifts from ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $28.42!
15 view cover	The Condition of American Liberal Education: Pragmatism and a Changing Tradition more books like this by Bruce A Kimball add to wishlist This extended essay is a carefully argued proposal that a consensus is emerging in the academy which is leading toward a distinctively American version of liberal education. Includes responses written by many scholars, including: Eva T. H. Brann, Nicholas H. Farnham, Edmund W. Gordon, Ellen T. Harris, Shirley Hune, Stanley N. Katz, Louis Menand, ... see all copies from $2.14! new only from $68.67! \| first editions
16 view cover	All-American Colleges: Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-Fashioned Liberals, and People of Faith more books like this by Dr. John Zmirak (Editor) add to wishlist From the publishers of "Choosing the Right College" comes a brand-new guide that provides personal, in-depth profiles of 40 highly recommended schools and programs. see all copies from $7.42! new only from $16.66! \| SVS
17 view cover	Myth of Pol Correctness-PB more books like this by John K Wilson add to wishlist "The classics of Western culture are out, not being taught, replaced by second-rate and Third World texts. White males are a victimized minority on campuses across the country, thanks to affirmative action. Speech codes have silenced anyone who won't toe the liberal line. Feminists, wielding their brand of sexual correctness, have taken over." ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.49! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	America Goes to College: Political Theory for the Liberal Arts more books like this by John Evan Seery add to wishlist A rallying cry on behalf of a distinctly American institution of higher learning--the small liberal arts college--AMERICA GOES TO COLLEGE combines broad-based scholarship with personal narrative and reflection. In a highly entertaining manner, John E. Seery showcases the precarious successes of a well-rounded liberal arts education, while at the ... see all copies from $8.82! new only from $15.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Beauty for Truth's Sake: The Re-Enchantment of Education more books like this by Stratford Caldecott add to wishlist Much of the confusion and meaninglessness of the twenty-first century stems from the fragmentation of knowledge. Our postmodern times cry out for a return to wholeness. Enter Stratford Caldecott, who calls for renewal in education in "Beauty for Truth's Sake". By reclaiming the inspiration of the classic liberal arts and by viewing disciplines ... see all copies from $13.00! new only from $14.01! \| SVS
20	Closing Amercn Min more books like this by Allan Bloom, Saul Bellow (Introduction by) add to wishlist A powerful critique, by a distinguished political philosopher, of the intellectual and moral confusions of our age, showing how American democracy has unwittingly played host to vulgarized Continental ideas of nihilism and despair, or relativism disguised as tolerance. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and Bias in Higher Education more books like this by Michael Berube add to wishlist Described as one of the "101 Most Dangerous Academics in America" by right-wing critic David Horowitz, Michael Berube has become a leading liberal voice in the ongoing culture wars in America. "What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?" offers a definitive rebuttal of conservative activists' most incendiary claims about American universities and in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Idealism and Liberal Education more books like this by James O Freedman add to wishlist An eloquent tribute to the value of the liberal education see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.77! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Free and Ordered Space: The Real World of the University more books like this by A Bartlett Giamatti add to wishlist President of Yale University from 1978 to 1986, A. Bartlett Giamatti was one of the voices who, in his own words, "repositioned the academy in a changed world". In these essays he defines the essence of liberal education and sets forth his commitment to an education that "will constantly test rather than impose the values it cherishes". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.08! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Beyond Cheering and Bashing: Perspectives on the Closing of the American Mind more books like this by William K Buckley (Editor), James Seaton (Contributions by) add to wishlist The debate over the central issue confronted in "The Closing of the American Mind"--the role of the university and the liberal arts in the United States--has become increasingly urgent and contentious. The goal of this collection of essays is to see what we can learn about the dilemmas confronting American culture through consideration of both ... see all copies from $10.66! new only from $11.89!
25 view cover	A Methodology of the Heart: Evoking Academic and Daily Life: Evoking Academic and Daily Life more books like this by Ronald J Pelias add to wishlist Education without ethics, without sentiments, without heart, is simply soulless, factual academics and nothing more. In his array of authentic essays, Ronald J. Pelias poetically evokes the spiritual aspects of life in a seemingly dispassionate field - the academy. A Methodology of the Heart presents a procession of situational compositions ... see all copies from $20.75! new only from $30.24! \| first editions

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