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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had | Susan Wise Bauer
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An engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition. 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. 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. The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of five literary genresfiction, autobiography, history, drama, and poetryaccompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapterranging from Cervantes to A. S. Byatt, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrichpreview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing. The Well-Educated Mind reassures those readers who worry that they read too slowly or with below-average comprehension. If you can understand a daily newspaper, there's no reason you can't read and enjoy Shakespeare's Sonnets or Jane Eyre. But no one should attempt to read the "Great Books" without a guide and a plan. Susan Wise Bauer will show you how to allocate time to your reading on a regular basis; how to master a difficult argument; how to make personal and literary judgments about what you read; how to appreciate the resonant links among texts within a genrewhat does Anna Karenina owe to Madame Bovary?and also between genres. Followed carefully, the advice in The Well-Educated Mind will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word.
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GingerAntics
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This connects amazingly well to the book Laziness does not exist. It also explains why intellectuals are not valued in American society.
#susanwisebauer #thewelleducatedmind #devinprice #lazinessdoesnotexist

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GingerAntics
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#susanwisebauer #thewelleducatedmind #readwise
I‘ve started using an app called Readwise, that shows you the things you have highlighted in books you have read. It helps you remember what you‘ve read and review them. It‘s actually kind of cool.

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Emjoy21
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Have been working through the fiction list in The Well-Educated Mind, so I thought I would post thoughts on the ones I‘ve read so far. Enjoying having something to sharpen my literary skills on other than my curriculum! #thewelleducatedmind #classics #greatbooks

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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“Reading is a life-long process” (Indeed! I have been out exploring at a library sale @Cinfhen and got all these for only $3. Includes first books for the upcoming new grandbaby 😍) #litsyexplorer

Cinfhen Well done🙌🏻💚#Litsyexplorer you are earning your field badge😁😁😁 7y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads Taking a bow. @Cinfhen 🙇🏽‍♀️ 7y
Cinfhen And congrats on the grand baby 💕💕💕 7y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads Thanks @Cinfhen My third in 3 years 😍 7y
Cinfhen Awesome 🤗🤗🤗 7y
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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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Reading is the most important method of self-improvement.
(Is this a good enough rationalization for having no idea what this book is that I ordered? 🤔)

mjdowens LOL. I have had that experience more than once. Glad I am not alone in that 7y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads I still have not opened it. @mjdowens 🙂 7y
mjdowens Aw come on. Now you made me want to know😂😂 7y
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mjdowens 👏👏👏 7y
mrozzz Lol of course!! It's THE reason to over-stock 😉 (edited) 7y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads Exactly! Of course! @mrozzz 7y
Jazruiz.2014 Is ordering from Thrift Books cheep or just where you get some books? 7y
Jazruiz.2014 @Joyfulmimi lol 😂 love it. 7y
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halfdesertedstreets
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We do those things which are rewarding to us, and immediate gratification always seems more reading than slow progress towards a long-term goal. We live in a world that applauds visible achievement; it will almost always be more satisfying to do something than to think.

halfdesertedstreets *rewarding 8y
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