Classical Christian Education Reading List

Compiled by David J. Vaughan

One of the fastest growing movements in Christian education is the field of Classical education. Concisely, classical education focuses on the traditional Trivium of Latin, Logic and Rhetoric. It just so happens that the Classical approach was the one used for centuries in the West, and thus helped to build the legacy of Western art, science and literature. Why it’s important and how it works can be learned from the following books.

• The Lost Tools of Learning: Sayers*

• The Abolition of Man: Lewis

• The Case for Classical Christian Education: Wilson*

• Classical Education and the Home School: Wilson, et. al.*

• The Well-Trained Mind: Wise and Bauer

• Norms and Nobility: Hicks

• The Classical Tradition: Highet

• The Crisis of Western Education: Dawson

• Religion and the Rise of Western Culture: Dawson

• Train Up a Child: Barclay*

• Of Education: Milton

• Of the Education of Children: Montaigne

• On the Education of Boys: Plutarch

• Institutio Oratoria: Quintilian
  
  

*The books marked with an asterisk are suggested as an introduction to the subject.