The
Great Tradition
Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being
Author: Richard Gamble
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. 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 historian Richard Gamble, this anthology reconstructs a centuries-long conversation
about the goals, conditions, and ultimate value of true education. Spanning
more than two millennia, from the ancient Greeks to contemporary writers, it
includes substantial excerpts from more than sixty seminal writings on education.
Represented here are the wisdom and insight of such figures as Xenophon, Plato,
Aristotle, Seneca, Cicero, Basil, Augustine, Hugh of St. Victor, Bonaventure,
Thomas Aquinas, Erasmus, Edmund Burke, John Henry Newman, Thomas Arnold, Albert
Jay Nock, Dorothy Sayers, C. S. Lewis, and Eric Voegelin.
This unique collection is designed to help parents, students, and teachers reconnect
with this noble legacy, to articulate a coherent defense of the liberal arts
tradition, and to do battle with the modern utilitarians and vocationalists
who dominate educational theory and practice.
ISBN:
9781933859255
Author: Richard Gamble
Length: 500 pages
Edition: Hardcover
Code: GT-H
Price:: $30.00
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