The well-educated mind : a guide to the classical education you never had / Susan Wise Bauer.

New York : W W Norton and Company, 2003.

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Literature -- History and criticism.

Books and reading.

Education, Humanistic.

Selfculture.

Part I Beginning: preparing for classical education --1. Training your own mind: the classical education you never had --2. Wrestling with books: the act of reading --3. Keeping the journal: a written record of new ideas --4. Starting to read: final preparations --Part II Reading: jumping into the great conversation --5. The story of people: reading through history with the novel --6. The story of me: autobiography and memoir --7. The story of the past: the takes of historians (and politicians) --8. The world stage: reading through history with drama --9. History refracted: the poets and their poems.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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432 p. ; 24 cm