Title:
The well-educated mind : a guide to the classical education you never had : updated and expanded
Author:
Edition:
Updated and expanded.
Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
©2016.
Physical Description:
510 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780393080964
Abstract:
"The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition,"--Amazon.com.
General Note:
Date of publication from publisher's website.
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.
Language:
English
