From the Book - Updated and expanded.
Part I. Beginning: preparing for classical education
Chapter 1. Training your own mind: the classical education you never had
Chapter 2. Wrestling with books: the act of reading
Chapter 3. Keeping the journal: a written record of new ideas
Chapter 4. Starting to read: final preparations
Part II. Reading: jumping into the great conversation
Chapter 5. The story of people: reading through history with the novel
Chapter 6. The story of me: autobiography and memoir
Chapter 7. The story of the past: the tales of historians (and politicians)
Chapter 8. The world stage: reading through history with drama
Chapter 9. History refracted: the poets and their poems
Chapter 10. The cosmic story: understanding the Earth, the skies, and ourselves.