These are my personal classics on the topic of education in general.  They are a broad example of the why and how of home education.  These have been instrumental in building my homeschooling foundation.  These I recommend wholeheartedly.

~ The Self-Propelled Advantage, by Joanne Calderwood

~ Celestial Education, by Michelle Stone (DVD)  Can now be viewed online here

~ The Call To Brilliance, by Resa Steindel Brown

~ Better Late than Early, by Dr. Raymond and Dorothy Moore

~ How Children Learn, by John Holt

~ Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, by John Taylor Gatto

~ Teach the Children: An Agency Approach to Education, by Niel Flinders

~ Revealed Educational Principles and the Public Schools, by Jack Monnett

~ 7 Kinds of Smart, by Thomas Armstrong

~ The Three R’s, by Ruth Beechick

~ The Original Home Schooling Series, Six-Volume Set, by Charlotte M. Mason

~ TJed for Teens, by Oliver DeMille and Shannon Brooks  (Oh, if only someone had handed me this book when I was 13!)

~ Last but NOT least: Scriptural examples of teaching and learning.