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Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin

10 best books like Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin (Tracy Lee Simmons): The Original Homeschooling Series, Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style, The Latin-Centered Curriculum: A Homeschooler's Guide to a Classical Education, Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being, Beauty for Truth's Sake: The Re-Enchantment of Education, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education

The Original Homeschooling Series
AuthorCharlotte M. Mason
ISBN1889209007
This is the complete works of the turn-of-the-century British educator, Charlotte Mason. The six-volume set includes over 2,400 pages of the finest material ever written on education, child training and parenting. Recognized as the pioneer in home education and major school reforms, Charlotte...
Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style
AuthorHarvey Bluedorn
ISBN0974361631
How can you give your children the tools they need to teach themselves? Long ago students were first taught how to learn. Today, students are taught an encyclopedia of subjects but they are not taught the basic skills of learning: to discover, to reason, and to apply. They are not taught the trivium.

Can...
The Latin-Centered Curriculum: A Homeschooler's Guide to a Classical Education
AuthorAndrew A. Campbell
ISBN1930953712
Andrew Campbell's new book, The Latin Centered Curriculum, gives teachers and parents an interesting and easy to read guide explaining classical education, how it came about, and who its major exponents are. In addition to a useful scope and sequence for how a Latin-centered classical education...
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning
AuthorDouglas Wilson
ISBN0891075836
Public education in America has run into hard times. Even many within the system admit that it is failing. While many factors contribute, Douglas Wilson lays much blame on the idea that education can take place in a moral vacuum. It is not possible for education to be nonreligious, deliberately excluding...
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education
AuthorJames S. Taylor
ISBN0791435865
This book rediscovers a traditional mode of knowledge that remains viable today. Contrasted to the academic and cultural fads often based on the scientific methodology of the Cartesian legacy, or any number of trendy experiments in education, Poetic Knowledge returns to the freshness and importance...
The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being
AuthorRichard Gamble
ISBN1933859253
Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition—the Great Tradition—of education in the West...
Beauty for Truth's Sake: The Re-Enchantment of Education
AuthorStratford Caldecott
ISBN1587432625
Own. Wish I could do 3.5 stars.

I’m both smarter and dumber after reading this book.

This book is unabashedly Roman Catholic; quoting RC theologians and philosophers regularly and consistently, including the two most recent Popes frequently. His section on learning being by...
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
AuthorAnthony M. Esolen
ISBN1935191888
I tend to enjoy most books I read (easily entertained, I guess), but don't let my low book standards detract from my statement that this is one of the best books I've ever read. While it appears to be a book on child-raising (and sort of is), I'd recommend it to anyone, parent or not. The author is clearly brilliant,...
Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
AuthorVictor Davis Hanson
ISBN1893554260
For hundreds of years, the study of the classics was at the heart of a liberal education, thought essential to the cultivation of free men. Yet today speaking Latin would be regarded as a sign of eccentricity, not erudition. People now attend university for technical expertise in fields like business,...
Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education
AuthorDavid V. Hicks
ISBN0761814671
A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience,...
The Lost Tools of Learning
AuthorDorothy L. Sayers
Since this paper is known to have had great influence on the emergence of the classical schooling movement, I could not help but include it in my article Learning How to Think: A Reading List for Parents Considering Classical Education.”. I first read it about the time I decided to send my child to a classical...
The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education
AuthorKevin Clark
This new booklet introduces readers to a paradigm for understanding classical education that transcends the familiar three-stage pattern of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Instead, this booklet describes the liberal arts as a central part of a larger and more robust paradigm of classical education...
The Seven Laws of Teaching
AuthorJohn Milton Gregory
ISBN0801064961
The Seven Laws of Teaching wonderfully summarizes timeless basic principles of teaching and learning. There is a great deal of wisdom and food for thought in this slim volume and I’d commend it to any teacher. At first, the laws seemed simple, but Gregory takes the observable, fundamental elements...
Books That Build Character: A Guide to Teaching Your Child Moral Values Through Stories
AuthorWilliam Kilpatrick
ISBN0671884239
Here is a family guide to classic novels, contemporary fiction, myths and legends, science fiction and fantasy, folktales, Bible stories, picture books, biographies, holiday stories, and many other books that celebrate virtues and values.
There are more than 300 titles to choose from, each...
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination
AuthorVigen Guroian
ISBN0195117875
Guroian illuminates the complex ways in which fairy tales and fantasies educate the moral imagination from earliest childhood. Examining a wide range of stories - from Pinocchio and The Little Mermaid to Charlotte's Web, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Wind in the Willows, and the Narnia Chronicles - he...
Real Learning: Education In The Heart Of The Home
AuthorElizabeth Foss
ISBN0971889511
This book is not about "school at home"--it is about something better. It is about Real Learning. Homeschooling pioneer Charlotte Mason wrote with great wisdom about providing young minds with a living books education. She urged teachers to present great ideas and stand back, allowing students to...
Writing with Ease: Strong Fundamentals - Instructor Text
AuthorSusan Wise Bauer
Young students who learn to write well need one-on-one instruction—something which your child's classroom may not offer. In The Complete Writer series, Susan Wise Bauer turns every parent into a writing teacher. No experience is needed. Drawing on her fifteen years of experience in teaching writing,...
Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum: A Guide to Catholic Home Education
AuthorLaura M. Berquist
ISBN0898706602
Home educator Laura Berquist presents a modern curriculum based on the time-tested philosophy of the classical Trivium—grammar, logic and rhetoric. She has given homeschoolers a valuable tool for putting together a "liberal arts" curriculum that feeds the soul, as well as the intellect. Her...
THE QUESTION: Teaching Your Child the Essentials of Classical Education
AuthorLeigh A. Bortins
If I could give this 10 stars, I would! Wow!.
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
AuthorMiriam Joseph
Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Académie française, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in source after source. McGuffey's Readers introduced nineteenth-century students to "correct" English....
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