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The great tradition, classic readings on what it means to be an educated human being, edited by Richard M. Gamble

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The great tradition, classic readings on what it means to be an educated human being, edited by Richard M. Gamble

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 659-[668])

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The great tradition

Nature of contents

bibliography

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148870755

Responsibility statement

edited by Richard M. Gamble

Sub title

classic readings on what it means to be an educated human being

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: from 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"

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