I firmly believe that a kid-specific combination of both western and eastern Great Ideas offers the best to ABC.
You at least have already known more of the eastern GI than I do(I have relied on my father for years). For the western GI, I recall my 1st reading of Dr. Adler's "An Introduction to GI and Liberal Education(vol. 1 of The Great Ideas Program)" back in the early 1980s. It was such an eye openning to me, and it clearly showed me what I had missed for years in my own education. For quite a few yrs down the road after I got settled, I took evening classes at local colleges and started my own reading plan on Great Books of The Western World, supplemented by Harvard Classics and other "modern" classics.
I think Dr. Adler's introduction has most of what you like to know, and I am eager to discuss with you the great topic of ABC edu.