Susan Wise Bauer wrote a book called The Well Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had. "Using the techniques and systems of classical education, this new guide will give you greater pleasure in what you read, and greater understanding of it." She covers five genres worth of lists of books that people need to read to be...
more »Susan Wise Bauer wrote a book called The Well Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had. "Using the techniques and systems of classical education, this new guide will give you greater pleasure in what you read, and greater understanding of it." She covers five genres worth of lists of books that people need to read to be fully and classically educated. Many of these a lot of us have already read, and many of these we've always heard referenced and talked about reading but have never actually done it.
I am a college graduate who works in a bookstore and doesn't want my "education" to end with a Bachelor's degree in Business. I want to go through Bauer's list, and at a leisurely pace so as not to be too grueling, but I need some friends to read along with me. If I ever have kids I plan to use this as their high school literature book.
This group is for anyone who wants to read solid literature and have in depth discussions about it. Please feel free to join at any time even if you want to start at the beginning and other members are further along the list than you are, feel free to talk about any of the books on the lists at any time even if its not one of the ones we're currently reading. Its never to late to learn something new from someone.
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