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English
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Titles contained: The Great Conversation: The Substance of a Liberal Education; The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World Vol. I; … Vol. II; The Iliad of Homer and the Odyssey; The Plays of Aeschylus, … of Sophocles, … of Euripides, … of Aristophanes; The History of Herodotus, The History of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides; The Dialogues of Plato, The 7th Letter; The Works of Aristotle Vol. I; … Vol. II; Hippocratic...
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English
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George Anders explains the remarkable power of a liberal arts education, and the ways it can open the door to cutting-edge jobs. The curiosity, creativity, and empathy that are hallmarks of a liberal arts education aren't unruly traits that must be reined in. You can be yourself, as an English major, and thrive in sales. You can segue from anthropology into the booming new field of user research; from classics into management consulting, and from...
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Great books of the Western world volume 1
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Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1990, c1952]
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English
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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"Children are natural learners, and building a core foundation at an early age is critical to their success both educationally and in life. Yet academic excellence is lacking in many school systems throughout the country. In this book, education expert and author Leigh A. bortins incoroprates the best ideas from the ancients and gives parents the tools to revive classical learning"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an education from preschool through high school -- one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Home educators Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise outline the classical pattern of education called the trivium, which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind and comprises three stages: the elementary...
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