Reader Lists > Education

Classical Education

recommended by Scott Meadows

  • 1

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    Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
    by Tracy Lee Simmons

  • 2

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    Autobiography (Penguin Classics)
    by John Stuart Mill

    Required reading: Chapter 1

  • 3

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    The Theory of Education in the United States
    by Albert Jay Nock

  • 4

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    The Idea of a University: New Revised and Annotated Edition
    by John Henry Newman

  • 5

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    The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams
    by Phyllis Lee Levin

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