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Self-Study/Courses

Well if time and money aren't issues, then do a prep course and supplement with your own self-study. There's no harm in having a 99th percentile scorer teach you some things, and you can also discuss questions in class with others. For most people time and money are issues, which is why I am choosing self-study.

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Andrew,
I read your original post, and I am in a similar situation...in that I want to fill in the gaps of my education...and I went to a prestigious undergraduate college. As Mark Henrie writes in *A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum,* I was somewhat "bewildered" upon graduating. I tried to make sense of my BA in English, and the best I could come up with was putting the courses in chronological order. At least I had read Plato and Dr. Johnson, two figures who had an immense impact on my intellect.
Anyway, there is Mortimer Adler's Great Books Ten Year Reading list, here
http://www.angelfire.com/art/m.../misc/All_Years.html

There is also The Great Conversation discussion group here http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreatConversation/

I have been following "The Great Ideas Program." This is a 10 volume set that includes reading lists and self-study questions, edited by Adler and Hutchins.
For example, Volume I is "An Introduction to the Great Books and to a Liberal Education."
The reading list is:
Apology and Crito
The Republic (Bks I and II)
Oedipus and Antigone
...
Gibbon, Decline and Fall (2 chapters)
US State Papers
Marx and Engels

Volume II is Political Theory

Other volumes are entitled "Ethics," "Biology, Psychology and Medicine" etc.

www.thegreatideas.org is a good resource specifically for Adler books.

---Marie

Andrew, if you haven't already, read everything you can by James V. Schall. Pure gold. I'd begin with his Another Sort of Learning. See this wonderful interview with him, On Learning & Education:

http://www.ignatiusinsight.com...all_intvw1_aug05.asp

And definitely read E.F. Schumacher's A Guide for the Perplexed.