Educational Philosophy

Classical and Christian

  • The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman
  • Know Thyself: Classical Catholic Education and the Discovery of Self by Andrew Youngblood
  • The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education by Kevin Clark and Ravi Scott Jain with foreword by Peter Kreeft
  • The Lost Seeds of Learning: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric as Life-Giving Arts by Phillip J. Donnelly
  • The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Lutheran Education: From Wittenberg to the Future by Thomas Korcok
  • A New Natural Philosophy: Recovering a Natural Science and Christian Pedagogy by Ravi Scott Jain, Robbie Andreasen, and Chris Hall
  • A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning by James V. Schall
  • The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric by Miriam Joseph and edited by Marguerite McGlinn

Giants in the History of Education

  1. Socratic Conversation: Bringing the Dialogues of Plato and the Socratic Tradition into Today’s Classroom by Jeffrey S. Lehman
  2. Plato: The Great Philosopher-Educator by David Diener
  3. Aristotle: Education for Virtue and Leisure by Gary Hartenburg
  4. Augustine: Rejoicing in the Truth by Jeffrey S. Lehman
  5. C. S. Lewis: An Apologist for Education by Louis Markos
  6. Mortimer Adler: The Paideia Way of Classical Education by Robert Woods