The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto
8 best books like The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto (Mortimer J. Adler): Confessions, Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, Engaging the Muslim World, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric, Experience and Education, Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase, Once Craved
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0192833723 |
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting...
| Author | Douglas Wilson |
| ISBN | 0891075836 |
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...
| Author | Juan Cole |
| ISBN | 0230607543 |
Western society is suffering from Islam Anxiety—the product of fear-mongering and misinformation. There is a desperate need to debunk the myths concerning Islam in order to improve the political and ideological understanding between Muslim countries and their Western counterparts. Juan Cole,...
| Author | Antonin Sertillanges |
| ISBN | 0813206464 |
"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...
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....
| Author | John Dewey |
| ISBN | 0684838281 |
Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his...
Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase
| Author | Arthur Quinn |
| ISBN | 1880393026 |
Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within language and within ourselves. The "figurings"...
ONCE CRAVED is book #3 in the bestselling Riley Paige mystery series, which begins with ONCE GONE.
When prostitutes turn up dead in Phoenix, not much attention is paid. But when a pattern of disturbing murders is discovered, the local police soon realize a serial killer is on a rampage and they...
