Books like The Liberated Imagination by Leland Ryken

Christopher, a boy with Asperger’s syndrome, discovers that his neighbor’s dog has been murdered and sets out to solve the mystery with his unique analytical skills.

C. S. Lewis argues for the necessity of universal values such as courage and honor in modern life, warning against the erosion of objective moral standards.

When the extradimensional Flow that powers interstellar travel moves, the vast Interdependency empire risks collapse. A scientist, a starship captain, and the emperox must race to save humanity.

A series of lectures about the purpose of Universities in society.

Public education in America has run into hard times. Even many within the system admit that it is failing. While many factors contribute, Douglas Wilson lays much blame on the idea that education can take place in a moral vacuum. It is not possible for education to be nonreligious, deliberately excluding the basic questions about life. All education builds on the foundations of someone's worldview (teacher's, curriculum writer's). Education deals with fundamental questions that require religous answers. Learning to read and write is simply the process of acquiring the tools to ask and answer such questions. A second reason for the failure of public schools, Wilson feels, is modern teaching methods. He argues for a return to a classical education, firm discipline, and the requirement of hard work. Often educational reforms create new problems that must be solved down the road. This book presents alternatives that have proved workable in experience. - Back cover.

A discourse on late 20th century American students' mind and soul, and the damage done by the elite universities' turn from the eternal verities as outlined by Socrates-Plato-Aristotle, Shakespeare and Rousseau.