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The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Third Edition)
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A new edition of a forefront home-schooling reference shares step-by-step recommendations for providing a child with an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school, in a guide that incorporates updated resource listings, contact information, and Internet links. 20,000 first printing.
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This educational bestseller has dominated its field for the last decade, sparking a homeschooling movement that has only continued to grow. It 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. With this model, you will 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 contact information. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 814
Dimensions: Length: 1.75" Width: 6.5" Height: 9.5"
Weight: 2.45 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date May 1, 2009
ISBN 0393067084
EAN 9780393067088
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 | The "How To Guide" for Classical Home Education Jan 1, 2010 |
To be honest I came across this book by total curiosity. I saw our pastor's wife carrying it with her to and from church so I asked her what it was. After she showed it to me I decided to check out the library copy to read for myself. Since I had attended an "accelerated" public school which taught classical education I was curious as to what it would look like in the home setting.
"The Well Trained Mind" is authored by former public school teacher and homeschooling mother Jessie Wise, with additional commentary from daughter Susan Wise Bauer. The book begins with Jessie telling her own story of how she home educated her three children in the early 1970's when homeschooling was virtually unheard of. Susan adds her own commentary by giving the reader a personal look at classical education. From there the book is divided into the three components of classical education: Grammar Stage: Kindergarten-Grade 4, Logic Stage: Grades 5-8, and Rhetoric Stage: Grades 9-12. The book ends with the chapter on "How to Home Educate Your Child" and appendices. The Well Trained Mind is an excellant, non sectarian resource for those who would like to learn more about home education with a classical emphasis. | | | | A Wonderful Read No Matter what you choose. Nov 14, 2009 |
| This was a wonderful read. It enlightened me to a lot and it doesn't matter if you just want to enhance your child's public/group learning or homeschool. I don't do everything in this book and I regret not just following what they suggested because I just revert back to the style. My son in 3 months has grown tremendously and I have also seen a boy that could barely read read novels in 3 months. It is my reference book and a must have for any home library. IF you really are not sure about this book you can check out the previous edition on google books and trust me you will come right back to this site.com and purchase this title. | | | | This is what I've been looking for Oct 18, 2009 |
| This is THE Best Home School resource book that I have ever found - it's the ultimate "how to." The philosophy behind the program makes sense, and is well designed. There are reviews and recommendations for the myriad programs out there that cut out a lot of guesswork for me. | | | | How Children Ought to be Taught Oct 9, 2009 |
| If you want to school your child to be an intelligent and more than competent member of society this is the way to do it. The best thing about this kind of education? No text books! The child learns out of books which have been written for the sake of learning facts and have not been polluted with some sort of agenda. The child gets a pure education the way children are designed to learn. Then when they are older they learn how to think and react logically. It's painful how children grow up and never learn how to think critically. We chose this curriculum because there are lists of resources starting from preschool aged kids all the way to 12th grade. These lists are key, however, you should not stick to them completely but use your creativity and find other books or projects that might be better. For example, I did not like their suggestion for grammar stage anatomy. The Kingfisher First Human Body Encyclopedia. In fact, I find that I don't care for the Kingfisher series of encyclopedia's very much at all. There is a serious lack of content in them. I chose the First Human Body Encyclopedia by DK instead. But here is the beauty, you really don't even need the kids encyclopedia. There are enough resources out there that allow you to make you're own curriculum for anatomy fun. Get books like "Uncover the Human Body" by Luann Columbo, "My Body" by PATTY CARRATELLO, "Head to Toe Science" by Jim Wiese, and since kids love visuals get an adult illustrated anatomy book like "Human Body" by Martyn Page, being careful with the reproductive pictures of course. The adult anatomy book then can be used in grades 5 and 9 to give the student a more in depth study of anatomy and you save money by not getting a kids encyclopedia. This is assuming that your kids aren't squeamish. My 7 year old is just fascinated with whats inside his body and finds the adult anatomy books much more interesting than the children's books which tend to give dumbed-down information under the guise of "age appropriate material". Kids are capable of understanding so much more than we give them credit for. Mine surprise me on a daily basis. The down side of The Well Trained Mind? It takes time to research your books...lots of time! Time to: find books at your library, place holds and wait for them, choose the best ones, look through them once you get them and teach out of them. It's worth it when you see just how much better your kids understand the subject and you'll swoon when your child repeats facts to his friends from some random lesson a few weeks ago. Its worth it if you are prepared to spend the time making it successful. The program is designed to help your child get a world class education, but it's up to give it to your kids. | | | | Complete Manual with Breathing Room for Adaption Oct 8, 2009 |
This book changed me from very against Homeschooling, to being a Homeschooler.
Do not be put off by the thickness of this book. It is divided by age group, so parts may not pertain to you yet.
A reader has the chance to glean from the experience and wisdom of the author, and her adaptive approach to the Trivium Method of homeschooling.
After much research we are using this book as our manual to closely follow the Trivium, and looking into the many suggestions for curriculum that supports the Trivium Method. | | | Write your own review about The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Third Edition)
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