The Great Tradition

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Edition: 2nd Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 193519156X

The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being

Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. Download The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. An older tradition-the Great Tradition-of education in the West is waiting to be heard. Since antiquity, the Great Tradition has defined education first and foremost as the hard work of rightly ordering the human soul, helping it to love what it ought to love, and helping it to know itself and its maker. In the classical and Christian tradition, the formation of the soul in wisdom, virtue, and eloquence took precedence over all else, including instrumental training aimed at the inculcation of "useful" knowledge.Edited by histori Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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