"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence." -Abigail Adams
When I'm sewing or cooking, I like to listen to podcasts and audio books. Lately though, I've been listening to lectures from Hillsdale College's Online Courses. They have a lot of them available to listen to for free (my thrifty soul rejoices!) on a wide variety of topics. I'm currently in the middle of Great Books 101: Ancient To Medieval, which is a series of eleven lectures on- obviously- great books. So far I've listened to lectures on The Iliad, The Odyssey, Oedipus Rex, The Aeneid, The David Story (I & II Samuel and I Kings 1-2), and The Book of Job. Still upcoming are lectures on St. Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno, Canterbury Tales, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I'm finding the lectures really interesting and am quite enjoying the course. I intend to follow it up with Great Books 102: Renaissance To Modern which covers Don Quixote, Hamlet, The Tempest, Paradise Lost, Faust, Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground, Albert Camus' The Fall, Eliot's Poetry, Pride and Prejudice, and Huckleberry Finn. There are a lot of other courses I want to listen to, with lecture series on the writings of C.S. Lewis, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, etc. I also want to listen to some of the history lectures; the economics ones don't particularly interest me but I'm sure they're worthwhile as well. If anyone is interested in checking out these lectures, you can click on the picture of Hillsdale to the right and it will take you to the page with their online course list. "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence." -Abigail Adams
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