Another Sort of Learning Selected Contrary Essays on How Finally to Acquire an Education While Still in College or Anywhere Else:  Containing Some Belated Advise about How to Employ Your Leisure Time When Ultimate Questions Remain Perplexing in Spite of Your Highest Earned Academic Degree, Together with Sundry Book Lists Nowhere Else in Captivity to Be Found   James V. Schall, S.J. …

Convinced that a critical part of education is to foster in our children a love of the beautiful and true, teacher and writer Laura Berquist presents this wide selection of poetry for every age level from grades one to twelve. Poetry is important because it is one of the forms of the beautiful which is accessible to children. For this reason children should be exposed to the best examples of …

Mother Mary - God's Quick And Easy Way To Divine Holiness - A Marian Catechism For Everyone With A Childlike Heart Kathy Bleichrodt (Middle school through Adult)   On first glance, it would be easy to misjudge this work and dismiss it as simply a children’s storybook. But, oh what a mistake that would be! Its simple text and delightful illustrations teach profound doctrines treasured by …

How to teach—and learn—like the clearest teacher in history: St.Thomas Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas is Catholicism’s greatest teacher. His crowning achievement, the Summa Theologiae, was written as an introductory text for his students. But how many realize that his genius for teaching went hand in hand with his technique for learning from his own great teachers, St. Albertus …

The Catechism set comes with two hard back books, Mother Mary... God's Gift to You and The Parables of Willy Wheat .  Both books are illustrated and in full color.  In addition, each set includes wheat berries for activities in the books and a rosary and scapular.

This book is not about "school at home" - it is about something better. It is about Real Learning. Homeschooling pioneer Charlotte Mason wrote with great wisdom about providing young minds with a living book education. She urged teachers to present great ideas and stand back, allowing students to form relationships with the ideas. Elizabeth Foss carries Miss Mason's philosophy from the ideal …

This collection of official Catholic teaching on education is a rich body of work spanning almost the whole of the twentieth century, on the related themes of Catholic education and catechesis. The documents have been collated and edited with a view to enabling Catholic educators to appreciate more fully the riches of the tradition in which they exercise their vocation. It should serve as a …

Fr. Alfred McBride, O.Praem Never condescending, this book answers the questions teenagers really ask about the Faith. Considered in this guide: The Goal of the Teen Catechism The method used Five things to remember about teenagers Eight points to remember when teaching this course Thirty-six lesson guides for the thirty-six lessons of this book

Joseph A. Breig (Imprimatur 1949). The author (whose children are regular performers in the book) has taken each Sunday gospel or epistle and given a simple and beautiful explanation of it as he would for his own children. He uses his own family as the setting for all the stories which makes a most delightful yet educational book—a very easy way to get a Sunday family spiritual reading, …

Discussions of educational reform often involve windy talk of a "return to the classics, " but as Tracy Lee Simmons notes, rarely do would-be reformers go so far as to advocate a return to education in the classical languages themselves. In this concise and elegant brief, Simmons traces the historical trajectory of Greek and Latin education, giving especial attention to the crucial importance …

Steve Kellmeyer From parochial schools through Catholic colleges and universities, commentators agree that the Catholic system of education in America has broken down. While there remain a handful of schools which still pass on the Faith, most no longer do. What happened? Using the evidence of Magisterial, European and American history, this book analyzes the historical standards the Catholic …

In an examination of contemporary American culture--from literature to popular music--concerned with the restoration of Classical traditions, this work is comprised of a series of essays concerned with the still healthy vitality of America's Classical and Christian traditions, the errors of the current powers that be, and the way to cultural and political restoration. "Whether discussing the …

The most useful teaching guide ever written Considered daring a century ago, Dr. Maria Montessori's methods are now universally applauded Applauded, but not always understood. She explained them herself, in mezmerizing detail, in a book long since forgotten, now back in print from Roger A. McCaffrey Publishing. Dr. Montessori made educators understand how skillful individual training of young …

The Holy See's Teaching On Catholic Schools Archbishop Miller's comments are a beautiful synthesis of the Church's teachings on Catholic education, and should serve as inspiration and guidance for all who labor for the cause of Catholic education Contents: The Current Situation of America's Catholic Schools Shared Responsibilities Five Essential Marks of Catholic Schools

Henry T. Edmondson III The influence of John Dewey's undeniably pervasive ideas on the course of American education during the last half-century has been celebrated in some quarters and decried in others. But Dewey's writings themselves have not often been analyzed in a sustained way. In John Dewey and the Decline of American Education , Hank Edmondson takes up that task. He begins with an …

John Baptiste de La Salle Carl Koch This volume in the Classics of Western Spirituality makes available to a broad readership a selection of the core writings of John Baptist de La Salle (1651-1719), a French priest and educator who changed the face of education in his time and whose reforms continue to influence the ways we educate our children today. Born to a wealthy family, de La Salle …

Christopher Derrick The brilliant English writer Christopher Derrick presents a disturbing indictment of today's colleges and universities and the troubled condition of liberal education. The occasion for his writing this book was a visit to Thomas Aquinas College in California which deeply impressed Derrick with its true liberal and Catholic education. This small independent college convinced …