"In this highly energetic volume, Louis Markos makes his case that education must recover its power to form persons. Drawing from both Christian and the classics of the literary and intellectual tradition of the West, Markos takes a stand in today's debates around the purpose and means of education. Education, Markos thinks, is ultimately about the formation of whole persons to be responsible citizens in our shared public life. To make this case, he brings together theologians like Augustine, philosophers like Plato and John Dewey, and novelists such as Dorothy Sayers to model the essential value of Christian classical education"--