Helpful books for learning about classical education

There are dozens of books that can help us to learn more about classical education, and many of those aren’t on this list. The list below includes our favorite books, directly from our shelves (and which we have actually read with some degree of comprehension!).

• Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America by Gene Edward Veith and Andrew Kern

• Recovering a Catholic Philosophy of Elementary Education by Curtis Hancock

• Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awake a Child’s Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian

• The Death of Christian Culture and The Restoration of Christian Culture by John Senior

• Renewing Catholic Schools: How to Regain a Catholic Vision in a Secular Age from the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education

• The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto by Mortimer Adler

• Another Sort of Learning by James V. Schall

• The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

• Poetic Knowledge: the Recovery of Education by James S. Taylor

• However Imperfectly by Andrew Pudewa

• The Read Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie

Nothing strike your fancy here? Please visit the “Educational Philosophy” or “Pedagogy” sections of our Bookstore for more from our curated collection.

Helpful (free) resources for READING about classical education

What follows is a list of links and websites that we have found to offer profound insight into what an authentic classical liberal education is, and how it can be incorporated into your school, classroom or home.

Please check back often, as the list will continue to grow:

• The Angelicum Academy (https://www.angelicum.net/):

  • Articles on classical education and classical pedagogy by Angelicum founder Pat Carmack; and

  • Classical Homeschooling Magazine, with articles by multiple knowledgeable scholars

• The Institute for Catholic Liberal Education (https://catholicliberaleducation.org/):

  • A broad collection of multimedia resources; including,

  • A compilation of Church Documents and The Holy See’s Teaching on Catholic Schools

• The Circe Institute (https://circeinstitute.org/):

  • A comprehensive online introduction to classical education; and,

  • A helpful series of blogs, articles and more

• The Institute for Excellence in Writing (https://iew.com/):

  • A series of talks given by Founder Andrew Pudewa (audio files); and

  • A long-running blog with a broad scope

• Memoria Press (https://www.memoriapress.com/):

  • An overview of classical education; and

  • A collection of articles and blogs from multiple experienced classical educators

• Classical Academic Press (https://classicalacademicpress.com/):

  • An overview of classical education (with recommended reading list); and

  • Classical Insights blog

• Hillsdale College Resources for K-12 Education (https://k12.hillsdale.edu/)

  • The Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum

  • The Classical Classroom Blog

• Gateway to the Classics (http://www.gatewaytotheclassics.com/)

  • The Baldwin Project (online text for most of the print books published by Yesterday's Classics)

  • A Culture of Reading blog

• Catholic School Playbook (https://www.catholicschoolplaybook.com)

  • Full Text of the “Catholic School Playbook” book

  • CSP Blog

Helpful (free) resources for LISTENING about classical education

We acknowledge the grammar of this post’s title is not quite right, but what follows is a list of podcasts that we’ve found incredibly helpful for learning about classical education while driving, exercising, doing the dishes, and more! This list includes links to the main podcast only; for our list of most helpful podcast episodes, click here.

• The Ask Andrew Podcast (Circe Institute)

• Arts of Language (Institute for Excellence in Writing)

• Classical Et Cetera (Memoria Press)

• Hillsdale College’s K-12 Classical Education Podcast

• The Christopher Perrin Show (Classical Academic Press)

• Read Aloud Revival

• Liberal Learning for Life (University of Dallas)

• Anchored (Classical Learning Test)

• Classical Education (Beautiful Teaching LLC)

• Developing Classical Thinkers (Thales Academy)

• Heightscast (The Heights School)

Thoughtful podcast episodes about classical education

In an earlier post, we identified several podcasts that we found to be helpful for learning about classical education. Below, we list what we’ve found to be the most interesting and educational episodes about classical education. Please check back periodically, as we’ll continue to update the list.

• Nurturing Competent Communicators (Part 1 & Part 2), Arts of Language, Institute for Excellence in Writing

• Renewing Catholic Education (with Andrew Seeley and Elisabeth Sullivan), Liberal Learning Podcast, University of Dallas

• Tending the Heart of Virtue (with Vigen Guroian), Classical Education, Beautiful Teaching LLC

• What are the 7 Liberal Arts?, The Ask Andrew Podcast, The Circe Institute

• What is the Classical Pedagogy?, The Ask Andrew Podcast, The Circe Institute

• What are the Seven Liberal Arts?, Classical Et Cetera, Memoria Press

• Peda-what?: Is a “Classical” Type of Pedagogy in Education Good?, Classical Et Cetera, Memoria Press

• Who Defines the Classical Education Model, Classical Et Cetera, Memoria Press

• Recovering a Vocabulary for Classical Education, The Christopher Perrin Show, Classical Academic Press

• The Great Idea of the Liberal Arts, The Christopher Perrin Show, Classical Academic Press

• What is Classical Pedagogy? (with Zach Good), Hillsdale College’s K-12 Classical Education Podast

• The Moral Imagination and Teaching Right from Wrong (with Zach Good), Hillsdale College’s K-12 Classical Education Podast

• Jason Caros on American Classical Education, Classical Education, Beautiful Teaching LLC

• Justin Smith on Pedagogy and School Leadership, Anchored, Classical Learning Test