St. Stephen's Links...
On Classical Christian Education
- Dorothy Sayers' Essay on The Lost Tools of Learning—the essay that sparked Classical Christian Education. Dorothy Sayers, a contemporary and fellow Inkling with C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein, proposed that rather than teach children "subjects," we teach kids how to learn.
- The Well-Trained Mind—A Guide to Classical Education at Home.
- Association of Classical and Christian Schools—The primary mission of this association is to promote, establish and equip schools committed to a classical approach to education in light of a Christian worldview grounded in the Old and New Testament Scriptures.
- Veritas Press Resources—Here is a great resource for articles on Classical Christian Education, curriculum guides, and other free goodies.
- Why Classical Education?—"In modern education, we have put the proverbial cart before the horse by expecting students to master a great number of subjects before they have mastered the tools of learning..."
To Educational Resources
- Schola Classical Tutorials—"offers live group tutorials over the internet in the subjects of a classical liberal arts curriculum: the classical languages, the great books of literature and history, and rhetoric."
Of Great Works
- The Online Medieval and Classical Library —"is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization."
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library—From Augustine to Wesley, from the early church fathers in the first century to Billy Graham in the 20th century.
- The Internet Classics Archive—This contains 441 classics from antiquity (mostly Greco-Roman).
- The Well-Trained Mind List of Great Books—This contains a list of great works broken down by grade (9th - 12th), and are mainly divided by complexity.
- Project Gutenberg—Now that you have your list of Great books, from the line above, you can search for it. Note: these are only books in the free domain (pre-20th century for the most part).