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10 best books like The Art of Teaching (Gilbert Highet): Death at an Early Age, The Inn at the Edge of the World, The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education (Great Books Of The Western World, #1), The Thread That Runs So True, Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It, Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, A Little Way of Homeschooling, Beauty in the Word, Teacher, The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories

Death at an Early Age
AuthorJonathan Kozol
ISBN0452262925
It's hard to convey how powerful this book is.

The author, Jonathan Kozol, taught for a short time as a white teacher in a predominantly black Boston city school in the 1960s. He was ultimately fired for introducing his fourth grade students to a Langston Hughes poem called "Ballad of the Landlord"...
The Inn at the Edge of the World
AuthorAlice Thomas Ellis
ISBN1888173459
The five guests at the inn on a remote Scottish island have at least one thing in common—they are all in flight from Christmas. Are their respective unhappinesses impervious to the influence of the uncanny? This shrewd and witty gem, originally published in 1990, won the Best Novel award from Britain's...
The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education (Great Books Of The Western World, #1)
AuthorRobert Maynard Hutchins
The Great Conversation is a characterization of references and allusions made by authors in the Western canon to the works of their predecessors. As such it is a name used in the promotion of the Great Books of the Western World published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. in 1952. It is also the title of...
The Thread That Runs So True
AuthorJesse Stuart
ISBN0684719045
First published in 1949, Jesse Stuart's now classic personal account of his 20 years of teaching in the mountain region of Kentucky has enchanted & inspired generations of students & teachers. With eloquence & wit, Stuart traces his 20 year career in education, which began, when he was...
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It
AuthorJane M. Healy
ISBN0684856204
Is today's fast-paced media culture creating a toxic environment for our children's brains?
In this landmark, bestselling assessment tracing the roots of America's escalating crisis in education, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., examines how television, video games, and other components of popular...
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...
A Little Way of Homeschooling
AuthorSuzie Andres
ISBN0983180008
Suzie Andres and twelve other Catholic homeschoolers describe how they implement an "unschooling" style of teaching in their homes. Drawing from St. Therese, St. John Bosco, John Holt (How Children Learn and How Children Fail), and ancient philosophers, the families paint a picture of authentic...
Beauty in the Word
AuthorStratford Caldecott
ISBN1621380041
What is a good education? What is it for? To answer these questions, Stratford Caldecott shines a fresh light on the three arts of language, in a marvelous recasting of the Trivium whereby Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric are explored as Remembering, Thinking, and Communicating. These are the foundational...
Teacher
AuthorSylvia Ashton-Warner
ISBN0671617680
TEACHER was first published in 1963 to excited acclaim. Its author, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who lived in New Zealand and spent many years teaching Maori children, found that Maoris taught according to British methods were not learning to read. They were passionate, moody children, bred in an ancient...
The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories
AuthorPamela Zoline
ISBN0914232886
It was one of the science fiction-themed Great Courses I listened to last year that turned me on to Pamela Zoline. The professor described her as one of the greats, a writer ahead of her time, who had only published a single book (a brief collection of five short stories) in 1988, and radio silence ever since....
Uncovering the Logic of English
AuthorDenise Eide
ISBN1936706008
Multiple award-winning book on reading and spelling education that will transform how you think about English! Discover the method that Dr. Temple Grandin called "really helpful for teaching reading to children who are mathematical pattern thinkers..."

For the past 70 years students...
The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition
AuthorE. Christian Kopff
ISBN1882926250
It's tremendously learned, and mostly well-written, and I want to agree with his message because I think a classics-heavy education is a great idea, but I disagree strongly with almost everything he says. His grand scheme seems to be teaching children Latin rather than social studies, and completely...
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...
The Philosophy of Literary Form
AuthorKenneth Burke
ISBN0520024834
From the ForewordThese pieces are selections from work done in the Thirties, a decade so changeable that I at first thought of assembling them under the title, "While Everything Flows."  Their primary interest is in speculation on the nature of linguistic, or symbolic, or literary action--and...
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...
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...
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...
The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
AuthorAntonin Sertillanges
ISBN0813206464

"Evening! how little , usually, people know about making it holy and quiet, about using it to prepare for really restorative sleep! How it is wasted, polluted, misdirected."
~~ quote from The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges, O.P.


It has taken me a year to work my way through...
Marva Collins' Way: Updated
AuthorMarva Collins
ISBN0874775728
First published in 1982, this book chronicles how Marva---who was born to Henry and Bessie Wright in Monroeville, Alabama in 1936---came to realize a passion for teaching and went on to found Westside Preparatory School in Chicago in 1975. The school closed in 2008, but in this age of distress in the...
Another Sort of Learning
AuthorJames V. Schall
Another Sort of Learning: Selected Contrary Essays on How Finally to Acquire an Education While Still in College or Anywhere Else: Containing Some Belated Advise about How to Employ Your Leisure Time When Ultimate Questions Remain Perplexing in Spite of Your Highest Earned Academic Degree, Together...
36 Children
AuthorHerbert R. Kohl
ISBN0452264634
Both of my parents went back to school to get their masters in education a few years ago. Besides having to help them with their term papers, they shared some of the books that they had to read for their classes with me. This was one of them. Its a book about a Harvard/Columbia educated middle school teacher...
The Book of Learning and Forgetting
AuthorFrank Smith
The author eloquently contrasts a false and fabricated "official theory" that learning is work (used to justify the external control of teachers and students through excessive regulation and massive testing) with a correct but officially suppressed "classic view" that learning is a social process...
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