The Well-Educated Mind

Description

Have you lost the craft of perusing for delight? Are there books you realize you should peruse however haven’t on the grounds that they appear to be excessively overwhelming? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer gives a greeting and urging antitoxin to the interruptions of our age, electronic and something else. In her past book, The Well-Trained Mind, the writer gave a guide of traditional instruction for guardians wishing to self-teach

their youngsters, and that book is currently the chief asset for home-schoolers. In this new book, Bauer takes similar components and procedures and adjusts them to the utilization of grown-up perusers who need both pleasure and personal growth from the time they spend perusing.

The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, engaging accounts of five scholarly genres―fiction, collection of memoirs, history, dramatization, and poetry―accompanied by nitty gritty guidelines on the best way to peruse each type. The commented on records toward the finish of each chapter―ranging from Cervantes to A. S. Byatt, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich―preview prescribed perusing and urge perusers to make essential associations between antiquated customs and contemporary composition.