The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Updated and Expanded)

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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Updated and Expanded)

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Pros

Meaty book for the classical homeschooling family. If you are going to undertake the difficult yet rewarding task of homeschooling, this is the book to read. Full of excellent information and good recommendations for an adult who wants to broaden thei... Read More

The well-educated a guide to the classical education you never had by susan wise bauer is a revised and updated version of a text she originally wrote in 2003. Bauer is well-known in homeschooling circles as co-author with her mother of the well-train... Read More

For each genre, a list of books is given. Each book is then described in brief summary. Each step is carefully explained for each category of books.

Cons

There was not an enumeration of specific reasons why these books would have been selected as great. If you want information about books, google is free, so is the library. As a librarian, i was disappointed in this guide to the well-educated mind.

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Quality

The welleducated mind is a guide to reading these great books written to help those of us who are not familiar with the classic... Read More

Part one gives a simple universal procedure for reading anything more deeply

Although bauers list of great books overlaps significantly with the series it is not the same and therein lies one of its advantages

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My only beef is with the packaging

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At that rate this will truly be a lifelong endeavor

Well educated mind has saved me an immense amount of timei definitely will choose not to read some of the suggested books

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This product had a total of 260 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 9 2022.