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Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning

10 best books like Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning (Robert Littlejohn): Mathematics: Is God Silent?, Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, Beauty in the Word, The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being, The Art of Teaching, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin, Office Of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay, Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

Mathematics: Is God Silent?
AuthorJames Nickel
This book revolutionizes the prevailing understanding and teaching of math. The addition of this book is a must for all upper-level Christian school curricula and for college students and adults interested in math or related fields of science and religion. It will serve as a solid refutation for the...
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...
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...
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 Art of Teaching
AuthorGilbert Highet
ISBN0679723145
Over the years I have met people who were students of Gilbert Highet when he was a classics professor at Columbia. He was by all accounts a gentleman of the old school, a genteel and erudite scholar whose lectures on Vergil's Aeneid and many other classical works were widely appreciated. You get a sense...
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,...
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...
Office Of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay
AuthorScott F. Crider
ISBN1932236457
A frivolous argument or inflated claim is often dismissed with the reply, "That's just rhetoric!" But as Scott Crider explains in The Office of Assertion, the classical tradition of rhetoric is both a productive and a liberal art. The ability to employ rhetoric successfully can enable the student,...
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,...
The Idea of a University
AuthorJohn Henry Newman
ISBN0268011508
All the while I was listening to, reading along with, and contemplating Newman’s The Idea of a University I’ve been fighting this overwhelming sense of inadequacy. I can’t remember when I’ve encountered an author who’s challenged me so. While an excellent discipline and one to which I do...
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 Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil
AuthorJames Davison Hunter
ISBN0465031773
The Death of Character is a broad historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry into the moral life and moral education of young Americans based upon a huge empirical study of the children themselves. The children's thoughts and concerns-expressed here in their own words-shed a whole new light...
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...
Habits of the Mind: Intellectual life as a Christian calling
AuthorJames W. Sire
ISBN0830822739
A 2001 Christianity Today Book of the Year! What is an intellectual? How can you learn to think well? What does it mean to love God with your mind? Can the intellectual life be a legitimate Christian calling? Is the intellectual life your calling? James Sire brings wit and wisdom to bear on these questions...
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...
The Death of Christian Culture
AuthorJohn Senior
ISBN1932528156
First published in 1978, this hard-hitting exposition discusses the root causes of how and why Christian culture is dying. It investigates literature, culture, history, and religion in an attempt to show that education is increasingly about bureaucratic training and less about scholarly truth....
Happiness and Contemplation
AuthorJosef Pieper
ISBN1890318310
"The ultimate of human happiness is to be found in contemplation".In offering this proposition of Thomas Aquinas to our thought, Josef Pieper uses traditional wisdom in order to throw light on present-day reality and present-day psychological problems. What, in fact, does one pursue in pursuing...
Classical Me, Classical Thee: Squander Not Thine Education
AuthorRebekah Merkle
ISBN1591282098
Grades aren't the point, so drill to win.

Rebekah Merkle knows which high school classes you like and which you roll your eyes at, which books you enjoy and which you kinda skim. That's because she went through this whole thing called classical education, too.

Classical Me, Classical...
The Cross and the Beatitudes: Lessons on Love and Forgiveness
AuthorFulton J. Sheen
ISBN0764805924
The Cross and the Beatitudes is a short work by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. I won't go into great detail on who Venerable Sheen is as I expect my older audience will immediately recognize that name. However, for my younger audience, I encourage you to find out more about this great man. He was a brilliant...
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