Recommended Reading List
- Wisdom and Eloquence — by Robert Littlejohn and Charles T. Evans
- This book may be the best single source for Covenant Academy's view of Christian classical education. It is required reading for the board of directors and staff.
- Marva Collins Way — by Marva Collins
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It is Marva Collins's attitude that makes children
learn. It is her constant "You can do it!" that
convinces her students there is nothing they cannot
achieve. With great literature and genuine love for
children Marva turned ghetto children around to self
respect and a love of learning. She tells her
students on the first day of school, "I promise, you
are going to do, you are going to produce. I am not
going to let you fail." Her philosophy is evident as
she goes on, "I am a teacher. A teacher is someone
who leads. There is no magic here. I'm no miracle
worker. I do not walk on water. I do not part the
sea. I just love children and work harder than a lot
of people, and so will you. You will...
- Read hard books in here and understand what you read.
- Write every day so that writing becomes second nature to you.
- You will memorize a poem every week so that you can train your minds to remember things."
- An Education for Our Time — by Josiah Bunting, III
- In this thought provoking novel, Josiah Bunting takes a unique approach to the problems of American education and society in general. A millionaire philanthropist has left funds for the creation of his "dream college". Concerned with the training of mind, body, and soul, this college has as its' main goal the creation of disinterested servants of the nation. The ideas about what defines effective teaching and engaged learning will inspire all teachers even if General Bunting's college never becomes a reality.
- Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility — by Foster W. Cline, Jim Fay
- If you want to raise kids who are self-confident, motivated and ready for the real world, take advantage of this win-win approach to training children. Your kids will win because they will learn responsibility and the logic of life by solving their own problems. And you'll win because you'll establish healthy control without resorting to anger, threats, nagging, or exhausting power struggles.
- Shepherding a Child's Heart — by Tedd Tripp
- Dr. Tripp draws on over twenty years of experience as a pastor, counselor, school administrator and father in giving this valuable help to parents. This book is about how to speak to the heart of you child. The things you child does and says flows from the heart. Luke 6:45 puts it this way, "out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks." Written for parents with children of any age, this insightful book provides perspectives and procedures for shepherding your child's heart into the paths of life.
- Brain Matters — Translating Research into Classroom Practice — by Patricia Wolfe
- In this book, Patricia Wolfe makes it clear that before we can effectively match teaching practice to brain functions, we must first understand how the brain functions. Wolfe brings brain functioning into clearer focus, describing how the brain encodes, manipulates, and stores information. This informational processing model provides a first look at some implications of the research for practice-why meaning is essential for attention, how emotion can enhance or impede learning, and how different types of rehearsal are necessary for different types of learning.
Other books for understanding classical education
- Classical Education — by Gene Edward Veith and Andrew Kern
- The Well-Trained Mind — by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer
- The Lost Tools of Learning — by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning — by Douglas Wilson
- Repairing the Ruins — by Douglas Wilson
See also our blog, The Patriot, for short articles on classical education.
