Chapter 4-- Starting to Read: Final Preparations (Part 3)
- Classical education employs the Socratic method of learning.
- Teachers ask select questions that direct the students thoughts in the right way.
- Self educators should have a reading partner and will use quotes when beginning to answer one of the questions.
- This anchors your ideas and forces you to be specific.
- Look for collections of essays on a book. (Universities, library)
- Books studied chronologically for a continuous story
- Book lists are in order of intimidation with novels first, poetry last.
- You don't have to read every book on the list. If it doesn't speak to you, move on!
- You don't have to proceed through each level of reading for every book either.
- Some books are included because of their "cultural" importance rather than "greatness".
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