"Outstanding...should be on every home educator's reference bookshelf."--Homeschooling Today
This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of education--the trivium--which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind: the elementary school "grammar stage," the middle school "logic stage," and the high school "rhetoric stage." Using the trivium as your model, you'll be able to instruct your child in all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects.
Newly revised and updated, The Well-Trained Mind includes detailed book lists with complete ordering information; up-to-date listings of resources, publications, and Internet links; and useful contacts.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
The Public School Educational Paradigm on Steroids The Well-Trained Mind (TWTM) is a detailed "how-to" manual for a popular reinterpretation of classical home schooling. I say reinterpretation because the authors base their recommendations on three chronological stages of child development that they correlate to the first three skills of the ancient classical trivium. They call grades 1-4 the grammar stage, grades 5-8 the logic stage, and grades 9-12 the rhetoric stage. The ancient classical model did not follow these artificial gradations, but our culture... more info
Excellent, excellent book! One of the most thorough books I have seen on how to do Classical Homeschool. This is such a practical book, the curriculum recommendations are great, thorough but not overwhelming. I currently teach at a Classical Homeschool Co-op program and gained some insight into my kids from this, as well as great ideas for my own, who are preschool age. Also, for those of you who are not looking to homeschool from a distinctly Christian perspective, this book is written for everyone.
Just what I needed. I have been interested in the classical method of homeschooling since I started 2 years ago. This is THE book for me. The descriptions are very detailed and fairly easy to follow. The list for reading are great. I only wish my local library had more of them. The only thing I would change about the book is that the listings for materiels needed are after each subject instead of grouped at the end of each section.
Overwhelming I think this book tries to overwhelm someone trying to teach their child. I can't imagine a child being happy being taught so rigorously and will be isolated and overstressed with such intense hours of school. (A lot of public and private schools have the same problem) I don't trust the advice of teaching about all religions at such young ages. They need to be grounded in their own culture and religion first. I'd get a simpler construct of a classical education or you'll go nuts. Also, read John Taylor... more info
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