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

by Bauer, S. Wise

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W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]

028.9 B344w 2016

Books and reading.

Literature -- History and criticism.

Classical education.

Education, Humanistic.

9780393080964 (hc.)

Updated & expanded ed.

510 pages ; 25 cm.

Previous (1st) edition published in 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Beginning: preparing for classical education -- Chapter 1. Training your own mind: the classical education you never had -- Chapter 2. Wrestling with books: the act of reading -- Chapter 3. Keeping the journal: a written record of new ideas -- Chapter 4. Starting to read: final preparations -- Part II. Reading: jumping into the great conversation -- Chapter 5. The story of people: reading through history with the novel -- Chapter 6. The story of me: autobiography and memoir -- Chapter 7. The story of the past: the tales of historians (and politicians) -- Chapter 8. The world stage: reading through history with drama -- Chapter 9. History refracted: the poets and their poems -- Chapter 10. The cosmic story: understanding the Earth, the skies, and ourselves.

"Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. Newly expanded and updated to include standout works from the twenty-first century as well as essential readings in science (from the earliest works of Hippocrates to the discovery of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs), The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of six literary genres - fiction, autobiography, history, drama, poetry, and science - accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapter - ranging from Cervantes to Cormac McCarthy, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Aristotle to Stephen Hawking - preview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing. The Well-Educated Mind reassures those readers who worry that they read too slowly or with below-average comprehension. If you can understand a daily newspaper, there's no reason you can't read and enjoy Shakespeare's sonnets or Jane Eyre. But no one should attempt to read the "Great Books" without a guide and a plan. Bauer will show you how to allocate time to reading on a regular basis; how to master difficult arguments; how to make personal and literary judgments about what you read; how to appreciate the resonant links among texts within a genre - what does Anna Karenina owe to Madame Bovary? - and also between genres. In her best-selling work on home education, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children; that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In The Well-Educated Mind, Bauer takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers who want both enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading. Followed carefully, her advice will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word."--Provided by publisher.

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