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A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century
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2000
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Leadership Education: The Phases of Learning
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1913
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2012
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A Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion
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2006
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Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens
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2009
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The Coming Aristocracy
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2009
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Freedom Shift: 3 Choices to Reclaim America's Destiny
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2010
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We Hold These Truths to Be Self Evident: 12 Natural Laws of Freedom, Progress, and Success
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2013
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The Student Whisperer (Leadership Education Library Book 7)
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2011
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Hero Education
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2017
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“Books are better than television, the internet, or the computer for educating and maintaining freedom.
Books matter because they state ideas and then attempt to thoroughly prove them. They have an advantage precisely because they slow down the process, allowing the reader to internalize, respond, react and transform. The ideas in books matter because time is taken to establish truth, and because the reader must take the time to consider each idea and either accept it or, if he rejects it, to think through sound reasons for doing so. A nation of people who write and read is a nation with the attention span to earn an education and free society if they choose.”
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Books matter because they state ideas and then attempt to thoroughly prove them. They have an advantage precisely because they slow down the process, allowing the reader to internalize, respond, react and transform. The ideas in books matter because time is taken to establish truth, and because the reader must take the time to consider each idea and either accept it or, if he rejects it, to think through sound reasons for doing so. A nation of people who write and read is a nation with the attention span to earn an education and free society if they choose.”
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“Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.”
― A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century
― A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century
“Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of stories, our canon, shapes our lives. I believe it is a law of the universe that we will not rise above our canon. Our canon is part of us, deeply, subconsciously. And the characters and teachings in our canon shape our characters--good, evil, mediocre, or great.”
― A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century
― A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century
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