Core Texts
This program is centered around the core texts from the Western and American traditions of educational thought, such as:
- The Iliad (8th century B.C.) by Homer
- The Bible: Wisdom Literature & The Gospel of Matthew
- The Republic, Meno, & Gorgias (300s B.C.) by Plato
- Nicomachean Ethics (340 B.C.) by Aristotle
- On the Orator (46 B.C.) by Cicero
- The Education of the Orator (95 A.D.) by Quintilian
- On the Teacher (389 A.D.) by Augustine
- The Consolation of Philosophy (524 A.D.) by Boethius
- The Divine Comedy (1320) by Dante Alighieri
- The Tempest (1611) by William Shakespeare
- Emile, or On Education (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, A Slave (1845) by Frederick Douglass
- Twelfth Annual Report to the Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education (1848) by Horace Mann
- Moby Dick; or, The Whale (1851) by Herman Melville
- The Idea of a University (1852) by John Henry Newman
- Brothers Karamazov (1879) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Montessori Method (1912) by Maria Montessori
- Experience and Education (1938) by John Dewey
- Education at the Crossroads (1943) by Jacques Maritain
- The Lost Tools of Learning (1948) by Dorothy Sayers
- The Abolition of Man (1943) by C. S. Lewis
- The Art of Teaching (1950) by Gilbert Highet
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- The Paideia Proposal (1982) by Mortimer J. Adler
