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.