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Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child

10 best books like Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (Anthony M. Esolen): For the Children's Sake, The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education, Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition, 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, Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning, Beauty for Truth's Sake: The Re-Enchantment of Education, Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin, The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

For the Children's Sake
AuthorSusan Schaeffer Macaulay
Every parent and teacher wants to give their children the best education possible. Everyone would like education to be a joyous adventure and celebration of life, as well as a solid preparation for living. Sadly, most education today falls far short of this goal.

But as Susan Schaeffer Macaulay...
The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education
AuthorLeigh A. Bortins
In the past, correct spelling, the multiplication tables, the names of the state capitals and the American presidents were basics that all children were taught in school. Today, many children graduate without this essential knowledge. Most curricula today follow a haphazard sampling of topics...
Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition
AuthorKaren Glass
The educators of ancient Greece and Rome gave the world a vision of what education should be. The medieval and Renaissance teachers valued their insights and lofty goals. Christian educators such as Augustine, Erasmus, Milton, and Comenius drew from the teaching of Plato, Aristotle, and Quintilian...
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...
Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning
AuthorRobert Littlejohn
ISBN1581345526
An excellent introduction to the ideas behind classical Christian education, Wisdom and Eloquence goes a step further, reexamining the presuppositions with which that contemporary classical educators practice. Littlejohn particularly hones in on what Douglas Wilson and ACCS call the "Sayers...
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...
Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
AuthorTracy Lee Simmons
ISBN1882926730
Discussions of educational reform often involve windy talk of a "return to the classics," yet rarely do would-be reformers go so far as to advocate a return to education in the classical languages themselves. That is a program that strikes even the most stalwart critics of contemporary educational...
The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing
AuthorLeland Ryken
ISBN0877881235
This is an extraordinary treasure of thought-provoking reflections, by many of my favorite authors (including Lewis, Tolkien, and Chesterton). The sections on “Imagination, Beauty and Creativity” and “Myth and Fantasy” were particularly rich, at times enchanting. “In Praise of Stories”...
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 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...
Classical Education and the Homeschool
AuthorWesley Callihan
ISBN1885767854
As we survey the educational ruins around us, classical and Christian education appears to be an idea whose time has come again. More and more Christian parents are seeing the failures of modern education, and they are hungering for a substantive alternative, one that has been tested before and found...
Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning
AuthorNancy R. Pearcey
ISBN1433669277
Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or does it lead to fragmentation and disintegration? In Saving Leonardo, best-selling award-winning author Nancy Pearcey (Total Truth, coauthor How Now Shall We Live?) makes a compelling case that secularism is destructive and dehumanizing.

Pearcey...
Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth
AuthorDouglas M. Jones III
ISBN1885767404
Christianity presents a glorious vision of culture, a vision overflowing with truth, beauty, and goodness. It's a vision that stands in stark conflict with the anemic modern (and postmodern) perspectives that dominate contemporary life. Medieval Christianity began telling a beautiful story...
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