The Well Educated Mind
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00GFV1KIE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 366 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars This is an excellent guide to increasing my scope of knowledge.. Good guide to expanding your learning This book is a nice guide for broadening and deepening your reading variety. I used it to push myself into reading items I would have ignored. I like the authors suggestions for keeping notes on your reading. It has helped me not only understand more deeply but all. "The Well Educated Mind" according to Robert Cotter. I have fallen in love with Susan Wise Bauer! I was looking for a guide to the liberal education that I never had (engineer and computer scientist), and I got much more. Her writing style is very engaging and there are a lot of helpful suggestion on what to read as
Followed carefully, the advice in The Well-Educated Mind will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word.. An engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition. The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of five literary genres - fiction, autobiography, history, drama, and poetry - accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. In her previous book, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children, and that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In this new book, 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. Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. Byatt, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich - preview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing. But no one