Below please find a collection of titles, websites and other works. Though not directly affiliated with Avalon Mentors, each has been vetted by our mentors as being beneficial in the work of mentoring and teaching.
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The Abolition of Man by C.S.Lewis
The Liberal Arts Tradition by Kevin Clark & Ravi Scott Jain
And Madly Teach by Mortimer Smith
Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
The End of the Modern World by Romano Guardini
Leisure the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
The Idea of a University by St. John Henry Newman
The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers
Left Back by Diane Ravitch
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
A reading of Lewis’ “Abolition of Man”
A reading of Smith’s “And Madly Teach”