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A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning is a booklet written by James V. Schall and published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

In it, Schall writes that there are things that should be known " `for their own sakes, ` not for some useful or pleasurable purpose". These things help us in our pursuit of truth, to know reality the way it really is which is the true purpose of the mind. Unfortunately, these things are not taught in today's universities nor in the popular culture.

Included throughout the booklet are lists of books, which he suggests one read in the pursuit of "an intellectual life open to the truth". Schall wrote this booklet (an essay in his words) as almost a watered-down version of his book, Another Sort of Learning, which contains a more detailed recommendation on how to search for the true nature of things. An updated list originally included in the latter entitled "Schall's Unlikely List of Books to Keep Sane By" is reproduced at the end.

In addition, he makes a few notable suggestions:

"The very existence of the great books enables us to escape from any tyranny of the present, from the idea that we only want to study what is currently `relevant' or immediately useful."

"...we have not read a great book at all if we have read it only once."

"...at differing times of my life I have seen things in these works that I could not have seen when I was younger."

"There is nothing wrong with going back and in our leisure finding out what we had forgotten or not placed in the right context."

"Almost always, on reflection upon ourselves, we can find something in us, in our desires or habits or choices, that would prevent us from confronting the really important things."

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How To Read A Book by Mortimer Adler

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Another Sort of Learning by James V. Schall

The Unity of Philosophical Experience by Etienne Gilson

The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver

Humorous Books:

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Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae

Five Books on Thomas Aquinas:

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Plato, The Republic

Ellis Sandoz, The Voegelinian Revolution

Aristotle, Ethics

E.F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed

The Bible

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

Five Classic Texts on Philosophy, Good Men, and Death

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Six classic texts never to be left unread

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The Republic

The City of God

The Summa Theologiae

Seven Books about Universities

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St. Augustine, Confessions

Four Books Once Found in Used Book Stores

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Conversations with Eric Voegelin

Joseph Pieper, Anthology

Five Books by Joseph Pieper

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Pope John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope

Six Books given to me as a gift and now in my personal library:

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Five Books by G.K. Chesterton and Two by His Friend Hilaire Belloc:

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Six Memorable Novels, among the Millions:

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Three Books on Love:

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Four Older but Insightful Books on How to Prepare for an Intellectual Life:

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Louis L'Amour, The Education of a Wandering Man

Evelyn Waugh, A Little Learning

Brideshead Revisited

Rudolf Allers, The Psychology of Character

High School Books

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Schall's Unlikely List of Books to Keep Sane By

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Whatever Happened to Justice?

Law's Order by David Friedman

Simple Rules for a Complex World by Richard Epstein

The Great Ideas Program

The Great Conversation

Volume 1: Plato

A Patriot's History of the United States by Michael Allen and Larry Schweikart

The Annals of America

Men and Nations

  • 1600 - 1700 - Age of Kings
  • 1850 - 1914 - Age of Progress
  • 1914 - Present - Modern

Economics

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The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman

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For having reverted an edit you agreed with because it was unencyclopedic

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--BenBurch 23:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

-- CHOMP! CHOMP! (mmmmmm!) :-) Lawyer2b 05:11, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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I was just trying to get my thoughts down. I forgot to read through it again. Cheers Dmanning 20:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)