C.S. LEWIS
READING THE CLASSICS
While further resources may be had through a number of sites, we would first and foremost recommend any actual book listed in our curriculum from the Barney Charter School Initiative. As classical education is prolonged exposure to the greatest books, reading any of the books your children will read at our school will be the best approach to classical resources.
However, if you desire a general introduction to some of the greatest works and the greatest education itself, you are welcome to view or purchase the following works:
The Meno by Plato
The Republic by Plato
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
The Poetics by Aristotle
The Politics by Aristotle
De Oratore (On the Ideal Orator) by Cicero
De Officiis (On Moral Obligation) by Cicero
Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory) by Quintillian
Parallel Lives of the Greeks and Romans by Plutarch
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
The Divine Comedy by Dante
Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke
The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Jay, and Madison
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
An Introduction to Classical Education by Christopher Perrin
An Invitation to the Classics by Cowan and Guiness
Awakening Wonder by Stephen Turley
Beauty for Truth’s Sake by Stratford Caldecott
The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers
The Great Tradition by Richard Gamble
Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America by Veith and Kern
The Liberal Arts Tradition by Clark and Jain
A History of the Western Educational Experience by Gerald Gutek
The Great Books by Anthony O’Hear
The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
The Paideia Proposal by Mortimer Adler
The Educated Child by William Bennett
Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch
The Schools We Need by E.D. Hirsch
Why Knowledge Matters by E.D. Hirsch
What So Proudly We Hail by Kass and Kass
The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
The End of Education by Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Making Patriots by Walter Berns
Tending the Heart of Virtue by Vigen Guroian
The Book of Virtues by William Bennett
The Moral Compass by William Bennett
The Children’s Treasury of Virtues by William Bennett
The Four Cardinal Virtues by Joseph Pieper
The Moral Life by Louis Pojman
How to Speak, How to Listen by Mortimer Adler
Norms and Nobility by David Hicks
Wisdom and Eloquence by LittleJohn and Evans
100 Common Questions by Timothy Dernlan
Mathematics for Human Flourishing by Francis Su
The Trivium: The Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric
The Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, and Cosmology
The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
An Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis
History of the American People by Paul Johnson
Seven Ideas that Shook the Universe by Nathan Spielberg
A Brief History of Physical Science by John Cramer
Worldviews: A Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science by Richard Dewitt
The Heritage Guide to the Constitution by Meese, Spalding, and Forte
The Bible and Its Influence by Schippe and Stetson
Socratic Logic by Peter Kreeft
The Evolution of the Soul by Richard Swinburne
The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel Huntington
Tried & True by Daniel Coupland
Socratic Circles by Matt Copeland
The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Gregory
Simply Classical by Cheryl Swope
What is a Teacher? by Claudia Allums
How to Think about the Great Ideas by Mortimer Adler
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
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