Recommended Reading For Parents
Below is a list of highly recommended books for our families to read. These books provide a deeper knowledge of the classical model and further insight into the principles that guide our teachers and our administration here at HRA. Those books marked with an * are the best place to start for those who are new to the concept of a classical Christian education.
Children
*Shepherding a Child's Heart by Ted Tripp
Give Them Grace by Elyse Fitzpatrick
Future Men by Douglas Wilson
Classical Education
*Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning by Douglas Wilson
Wisdom and Eloquence by Littlejohn and Evans
*The Case for Classical Christian Education by Douglas Wilson
The Well Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
Climbing Parnassus by Tracy Lee Simmons
On Secular Education by R.L. Dabney
Education, Christianity, and the State by J. Gresham Machen
Why Johnny Can't Read by Rudolf Flesch
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective by Leland Ryken
*The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory
Punic Wars and Culture Wars by Ben House
Christian Worldview/Theology
*Lit! by Tony Reinke
Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey
How Should We Then Live by Francis Shaeffer
*The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver
On Christian Doctrine by St. Augustine
Practical Theology for Women by Wendy Alsup
How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture by Francis Shaeffer
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Saving Leonardo by Nancy Pearcey
Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl by N.D. Wilson
What's Wrong with the World by G.K. Chesterton