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The great tradition : classic readings on what it means to be an educated human being /

An anthology of classic writings on education.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gamble, Richard M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wilmington, DE : ISI Books, [2007]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Education > History.
Education.
Bildung.
Erziehungsphilosophie.
Erziehung.
Geschichte.
History.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
Table of Contents:
  • Plato: from the Republic
  • from the Laws
  • Xenophon: from the Memorabilia
  • Isocrates: from Against the Sophists
  • from the Panathenaicus
  • from the Antidosis
  • Aristotle: fron the Nicomachean ethics
  • from the Politics
  • Cicero: from Pro archia poeta
  • from De oratore
  • from The orator
  • from De partitione oratoria
  • from De officiis
  • Vitruvius: from The ten books on architecture
  • Seneca: from "On anger"
  • from "On the private life"
  • "On liberal and vocational studies"
  • Quintilian: from the Institutes
  • Tacitus: from A dialogue on oratory
  • Plutarch: from "On bringing up a boy"
  • "On the student at lectures"
  • Philo: from On the special laws
  • from On mating with the preliminary studies
  • from On the life of Moses
  • Clement of Alexandria: from Christ the educator
  • from the Stromateis
  • Origen: A letter from Origin to Gregory, Bishop of Caesarea
  • Gregory Thaumaturgus, "Oration and panegyric addressed to Origen"
  • Basil the Great: "To young men, on how they might derive profit from pagan literature"
  • Gregory Nazianzen, "Funeral oration on the Great St. Basil"
  • John Chrysostom: from the "Address on vainglory and the right way for parents to bring up their children"
  • Jerome: Letter to Eustochium
  • Letter to Magnus, an orator of Rome
  • Letter to Laeta
  • Augustine: from the Confessions
  • from On Christian doctrine
  • Cassiodorus: from Institutions of divine and secular learning
  • Gregory the Great: from Homilies on the Book of Ezekiel
  • Alcuin: from Charlemagne's "Capitulary of 787"
  • Alcuin on St. Peter's School, York, 732-86
  • Letters
  • Rhabanus Maurus: "Education of the clergy"
  • Hugh of St. Victor: from the Didascalicon
  • John of Salisbury: from the Policraticus
  • from the Metalogicon
  • Thomas Aquinas: Letters to Brother John
  • from On the teacher
  • Bonaventure: from The journey of mind to God
  • Petrarch: Letters
  • Pier Paolo Vergerio: from The character and studies befitting a free-born youth
  • Christine de Pizan: from The book of the body politic
  • Leonardo Bruni: On the study of literature
  • Aeneas Silvius: from The education of boys
  • Erasmus: from The antibarbarians
  • from On education for children
  • from The education of a Christian Prince
  • Martin Luther: from To the councilmen of all cities in Germany
  • Ulrich Zwingli: Of the upbringing and education of youth in good manners and Christian discipline
  • Juan Luis Vives: from The transmission of knowledge
  • Thomas Elyot: from The book named the governor
  • Philip Melanchthon: "Preface to Homer"
  • Johann Sturm: from The Latin letters of Roger Ascham and Johann Sturm
  • John Calvin: from Institutes of the Christian religion
  • Commentary on Titus 1:12
  • Roger Ascham: from The schoolmaster
  • The Society of Jesus: from Ratio studiorum
  • John Milton: from Of education
  • Giambattista Vico: "On the proper order of studies"
  • from On the study methods of our time
  • The academies and the relation between philosophy and eloquence
  • Edmund Burke: from Letter to a member of the National Assembly
  • Edward Copleston: from "Reply to the calumnies of the Edinburgh Review against Oxford, containing an account of studies pursued in that university"
  • Thomas Arnold: from "Rugby school--use of the classics"
  • John Henry Newman: "Discourse V," from The idea of a university
  • "Christianity and letters," from The idea of a university
  • Irving Babbitt: from Literature and the American college
  • Paul Elmer More: "Academic leadership"
  • A.G. Sertillanges: from The intellectual life
  • Albert Jay Nock: from The theory of education in the United States
  • Simone Weil: "Reflections on the right use of school studies with a view to the love of God"
  • C.S. Lewis: "On the reading of old books"
  • Dorothy Sayers: "The lost tools of learning"
  • T.S. Eliot: from Notes towards a definition of culture
  • Christopher Dawson: from The crisis of western education
  • Michael Oakeshott: "Learning and teaching"
  • Eric Voegelin: "On classical studies."