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"Louis Markos takes a stand in today's debates around the purpose and meaning of education. Drawing from the pre-Christian, Christian and post-Christian classics of the Western literary and intellectual tradition, Markos urges us to remember the primary aim of education: to form virtuous, morally self-regulating citizens. He gleans insights on the nature of education from a wide array of figures, including Plato and Augustine, Rousseau and John Dewey, Dorothy Sayers, and C. S. Lewis. What arise from his wide yet focused reading of the classical West is an argument for the virtue and necessity of Christian classical education."