دانلود کتاب The Priceless Gift of a Rich Cultural Education

The Priceless Gift is your invitation to savor the matchless pleasures of art and music, of mathematics, science and philosophy, of history and literature, in the company of a man who loves them as his best friends.

This book is a description of one man's education. It has been written to help you develop, on your own, a plan of personal culture, of self-education, that will benefit you for your entire life, and to show you practical methods of teaching yourself so that the effort can be brought to some result.

The plan offered is not a series of courses to be taken at home. It is not a method for acquiring a certain amount of skill or knowledge in a specific direction. It is a plan for your whole intellectual lifetime. It includes everything learned or heard of, in school or out. It comprises everything read or seen that you can raise to the height of thought. It is primarily a habit and an outlook. Since what is planned is the intelligent life itself, it can never come to an end.

No previous education is required except the ability to read this book and to count. It is necessary that you should want to know more, feel more, see and respond to more than you can when you begin. Some good will is needed, a friendly feeling toward the achievement of the human mind.