If you are interested in learning more about Classical Education, we recommend the following resources:

Classical Christian Education and Cultural Engagement

• Rules for Reformers – Doug Wilson
• Battle For the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation – David Goodwin and Pete Hegseth
• Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture– Aaron Renn
• Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education – David Hicks
• Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education – Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain
• Charlotte Mason a Liberal Education for All – Jason Barney
• Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition – Karen Glass
• Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education – James Taylor
• The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto – Mortimer Adler
• Education, Christianity and the State – J Gresham Machen
• The Abolition of Man – How Education Develops Man’s Sense of Morality – C.S. Lewis
• A Defense of Classical Education – R.W. Livingstone
• Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education – Stratford Caldecott
• Excused Absence: Should Christian Kids Leave Public Schools? – Doug Wilson
• A Philosophy of Education – Charlotte Mason
• The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being – Richard Gamble
• Leisure: The Basis of Culture – Joseph Pieper
• Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning – Robert Littlejohn and Charles Evans

Teaching Classically 

• In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education – Karen Glass
• The Seven Laws of Teaching – John Milton Gregory
• Something They Will Not Forget: A Handbook for Classical Teachers – Joshua Gibbs
• School Education – Charlotte Mason
• The Joy of Learning: Finding Flow Through Classical Education – Jason Barney
• On Christian Teaching: Practicing Faith in the Classroom – David I. Smith
• Teaching and Christian Imagination – David I. Smith, Susan M. Felch
• The Living Page: Keeping Notebooks with Charlotte Mason – Laurie Bestvater
• The Paideia Program: An Educational Syllabus – Mortimer Adler
• Rethinking the Purpose of Education: A Critique of Bloom’s Taxonomy from a Classical Christian Perspective (Aristotle’s Intellectual Virtues) – Jason Barney

Narration

• A Classical Guide to Narration – Jason Barney
• Know and Tell: The Art of Narration – Karen Glass
• A Short History of Narration: Charlotte Mason’s Teaching Practice in Historical Perspective – Jason Barney

Reading Well and Asking Normative Questions

• How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading – Mortimer Adler
• Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child’s Imagination – Vigen Guroian
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines – Thomas Foster

Shepherding and Discipleship

• The Rule of Saint Benedict
• Teaching for Spiritual Formation: A Patristic Approach to Christian Education in a Convulsed Age – Kyle Hughes and David Smith
• Parents and Children – Charlotte Mason
• Formation of Character – Charlotte Mason
• Laying Down the Rails: A Charlotte Mason Habits Handbook – Sonya Shafer
• Habits: The Mother’s Secret to Success (Charlotte Mason Topics Book 1)
• Discipline That Connects With Your Child’s Heart: Building Faith, Wisdom, and Character in the Messes of Daily Life – Jim and Lynne Jackson
• William Gouge Building a Godly Home Series – A Holy Vision for Family Life, A Holy Vision for A Happy Marriage, A Holy Vision for Raising Children

Classical Christian Approach to Mathematics

• Mathematics: Is God Silent – James Nickel
• Redeeming Mathematics – Vern Poythress
• A Mathematician’s Apology – G.H. Hardy
• A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form – Paul Lockhart
• Arithmetic – Paul Lockhart

Classical Christian Approach to Science/Nature Study

• From Wonder to Mastery: A Transformative Model for Science Education – John D. Mays
• Redeeming Science: A God-Centered Approach – Vern Poythress
• The Outdoor Life of Children: The Importance of Nature Study and Outside Activities (Charlotte Mason Topics)
• Nature Study Handbook: Introduction – Anne Comstock

Classical Christian Approach to History

• Redeeming Our Thinking About History: A God-Centered Approach – Vern Poythress
• The Biblical Philosophy of History – R.J. Rushdoony

Why Latin

• Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin – Tracy Lee Simmons
• Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language – Nicola Gardini
• How Dead Languages Work – Coulter H. George

Technology

• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness – Jonathan Haidt
• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business – Neil Postman
• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains – Nicholas Carr

Essential Great Books

• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• The Aeneid
• Dante’s Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)
• Paradise Lost
• Plutarch’s Lives (Vol 1, Vol 2)
• Shakespeare (any or all plays)
• Plato’s Republic
• Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
• Consolation of Philosophy – Boethius

Other Book Lists

• Mortimer Adler’s Great Books List
• St. John’s College Undergraduate Reading List
• Harold Bloom’s Great Books List
• Loeb Classics
• ACCS Christian Classical Education Booklist
• John Senior’s 1000 Good Books

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