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Desiring the Kingdom James K. A. Smith The Republic Plato The Liberal Arts Tradition Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain Teaching from Rest Sarah Mackenzie Poetic Knowledge James Taylor The Intellectual Life A. G. Sertillanges Norms and Nobility David Hicks How the Irish Saved Civilization Thomas Cahill Institutes of Oratory Quintilian Early Christianity & Greek Paideia Werner Jaeger Leisure: The Basis of Culture Josef Pieper The Four Cardinal Virtues Josef Pieper Glittering Vices Rebecca DeYoung Teach Like a Champion Doug Lemov Teach Like Socrates Erick Wilberding Socratic Circles Matt Copeland Ideas Have Consequences Richard Weaver The Idea of a University John Henry Newman Only the Lover Sings Josef Pieper The Soul of Science Nancy Pearcey and Charles Thaxton Monk Habits for Everyday People Dennis Okholm The Divine Challenge: On Mind, Math, Matter, and Meaning John Byl A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form Paul Lockhart Introduction to Classical Education: A Guide for Parents Christopher Perrin, PhD Why Students Don't Like School Dr. Daniel Willingham The Seven Laws of Teaching John Milton Gregory Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning Jacques Barzun The Art of Teaching Gilbert Highet Towards a Philosophy of Education Charlotte Mason John Milton: Classical Learning and the Progress of Virtue Grant Horner (editor) Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination Vigen Guroian You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit James K. A. Smith Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling James W. Sire Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education Stratford Caldecott The Way of Beauty: Liturgy, Education, and Inspiration for Family, School, and College David Clayton Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences John Allen Paulos Measurement Paul Lockhart Plato: The Great Philosopher-Educator David Diener Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty Stephen Turley On Christian Teaching St. Augustine The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Tony Wagner American Education: A History Wayne Urban, Jennings Wagoner, & Milton Gaither Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind Mortimer Adler The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them E. D. Hirsch, Jr. The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957 Lawrence Cremin Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform Diane Ravitch The Abolition of Man: Reflection on Education C. S. Lewis The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being Richard Gamble (editor) A Thomas Jefferson Education Oliver DeMille Great Ideas from the Great Books Mortimer Adler The Rise of the Universities Charles Haskins The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture Jean Leclercq Education in Ancient Rome Stanley Bonner A History of Education in Antiquity H. I. Marrou Politics Aristotle Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America Gene Veith and Andrew Kern For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School Susan Schaeffer Macaulay Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning Robert Littlejohn and Charles Evans The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning Douglas Wilson Teaching Science So That Students Learn Science John Mays The Classical Reader Leslie Rayner and Dr. Christopher Perrin Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid Homer & Virgil Inferno (Divine Comedy) Dante Purgatorio (Divine Comedy) Dante Paradiso (Divine Comedy) Dante Confessions Augustine Didascalicon Hugh of St. Victor Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle Old Age and Friendship Cicero Guiding a Faculty to Excellence Gordon Brown The Advantage Patrick Lencioni Good to Great Jim Collins Getting Things Done David Allen Death by Meeting Patrick Lencioni Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education Stratford Caldecott 
