The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Third Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (656 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00JVZ2XEQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 395 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lit_Goddess said Rigorous AND Fun. Wow some funny reviews below. I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend whose homeschooled Kindergartner loves learning and has been reading for close to two years. I've been an English teacher for ten years and have grown increasingly disenchanted with both public and private schools; I've watched bright, creative, passionate young people have the love of learning sucked out of them by a flawed and over-burdened system, or, worse, fall between the cracks because they have learning differences, despite the fact that they have amazing minds.To the readers who assert that. "reference book, great guide for the homeschool parent, ideas and solutions" according to Isabelle S.. Background: I bought this book two years ago when my oldest was about reference book, great guide for the homeschool parent, ideas and solutions Background: I bought this book two years ago when my oldest was about 3. I did not read this cover to cover because it is not necessary to do so. This is a reference book. I read the parts that are important to us which are easy to find due to the well organized indexes and references provided in the book. I homeschooled my son's pre-K and we are getting ready to homeschool K this year. I followed many of the suggestions in this book, ignored others. I still feel this book was a great base to start out.About the book:It is intended as a comprehensive guide to choose homeschool cur. . I did not read this cover to cover because it is not necessary to do so. This is a reference book. I read the parts that are important to us which are easy to find due to the well organized indexes and references provided in the book. I homeschooled my son's pre-K and we are getting ready to homeschool K this year. I followed many of the suggestions in this book, ignored others. I still feel this book was a great base to start out.About the book:It is intended as a comprehensive guide to choose homeschool cur. Excellent overall resource for embarking on homeschooling, but science suggestions not great mwwg My kids are in public schools, and I'm using WTM to do a home enrichment program. Kids are 6 and 9.I give this 4.5 stars. As this is well-reviewed, and I agree with most of the positive reviews, I'll start with my one big CON.The recommendations for early science curriculum are straight-up garbage. My husband is a science professor at an Ivy, and I have a strong STEM background. While I appreciate the idea behind connecting the science and history curriculum, it doesn't really work from a education standpoint. Kids are terrific observers at this early age, but less good at abstrac
Veteran home educators Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer outline the classical pattern of education called the trivium, which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind and comprises three stages: the elementary school "grammar stage," the middle school "logic stage," and the high school "rhetoric stage." Using this theory 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. The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school - one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious ab