The well-educated mind: a guide to the classical education you never had [First edition] 9780393070972, 0393070972, 9780393253917, 0393253910

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English Pages 432 Year 2003

The well-educated mind: a guide to the classical education you never had [First edition]
9780393070972, 0393070972, 9780393253917, 0393253910

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Susan Wise Bauer

Table of contents :
Content: 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 --
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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