Acknowledgments -- Part I Beginning: Preparing for Classical Education -- Chapter 1 Training Your Own Mind: The Classical Education You Never Had -- Chapter 2 Wrestling with Books: The Act of Reading -- Chapter 3 Keeping the Journal: A Written Record of New Ideas -- Chapter 4 Starting to Read: Final Preparations -- Part II Reading: Jumping into the Great Conversation -- Chapter 5 The Story of People: Reading through History with the Novel -- Chapter 6 The Story of Me: Autobiography and Memoir -- Chapter 7 The Story of the Past: The Tales of Historians (and Politicians) -- Chapter 8 The World Stage: Reading through History with Drama -- Chapter 9 History Refracted: the Poets and Their Poems -- Chapter 10 The Cosmic Story: Understanding the Earth, the Skies, and Ourselves -- Permissions -- Index.
|