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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.

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It is a homework-book

It is about how you read a book, and how to take notes or speed read or improve your understanding when reading the "great books". Not ideal for passive listening, as when commuting.

I had hoped for a bit more insights on and from the great books, rather than a how-to book.

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Excellent summary of classical works!

I can't wait to dig into many of the suggested texts! I also enjoyed the notetaking suggestions and guided questions.

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