The well-educated mind: a guide to the classical education you never had : updated and expanded

Part I. Beginning: preparing for classical education. Training your own mind: the classical education you never had ; Wrestling with books: the act of reading ; Keeping the journal: a written record of new ideas ; Starting to read: final preparations

Part II. Reading: jumping into the great conversation. The story of people: reading through history with the novel ; The story of me: autobiography and memoir ; The story of the past: the tales of historians (and politicians) ; The world stage: reading through history with drama ; History refracted: the poets and their poems ; The cosmic story: understanding the Earth, the skies, and ourselves.