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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Catalog: Book Release date: 2004-04 Media: Hardcover Number of pages: 800 Ean: 9780393059274 Book Isbn: 0393059278  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthors:
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| Offers step-by-step instruction on how to enable an academically rigorous, comprehensive education for children from preschool through high school, outlining a classical educational model while providing book lists, ordering information, and Internet links. |
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 Written on April 27, 2008 Summary: wrong photo The photo next to the book is of the revised and updated book. I ordered it only to find out that I was getting the old book with a different cover and outdated info. Not very happy.  Written on April 15, 2008 Summary: Don't get stressed out! This is fantastic in that the resources are thoroughly reviewed from a credible source. This particular style of homeschooling may stress some parents out though; it is very regimented. This can be altered to suit just about any style, however, which is one reason I gave it such a high rating. Written on April 10, 2008 Summary: Thorough, Mostly Excellent This is a very good book. I am using it to design a custom curriculum for my daughter. She is only two-and-a-half, but is starting to read already, wants to be a mathematician, and likes ancient Greece, so I thought I had better start early. I read some negative reviews of the book here and would like to say something in its defense. The authors state that the reader isn't meant to follow everything in the book exactly, standing over the student with a stopwatch, barking orders. One is meant to take from the book whatever is useful and apply it, even to use it to supplement a public or private school education, in one subject or all. The curriculum should be modified as the teacher sees fit, in order to suit the needs and tastes of the child. The struggling student should move slowly through this rigorous curriculum rather than being given something watered down in order to facilitate social promotion. Unless the student masters basics, he or she cannot hope to have an intellectually fulfilling life. The goal of a classical education is to produce a well-rounded and culturally-literate student with a full and solid foundation. This includes Latin, for instance, because that language supplements the learning of logic and English grammar and vocabulary. Just like a student that hates math must learn arithmetic, a student that hates Latin must still have a good introduction to it. The first student shouldn't be forced into calculus and the second student shouldn't be forced into more advanced Latin. I do have some reservations about certain things in the book. Most importantly, there is a math curriculum recommended in it, Calvert Math, which I've found to be of marginal quality. It DOES teach arithmetic, but even in 5th grade, relies fairly heavily on manipulative objects (blocks, fraction strips, and so on) and hasn't finished teaching basic arithmetic, yet includes many higher math concepts, such as algebra and probability. I have no experience with the other math curricula. The other two problems are smaller, but still serious. First, in 12th-grade literature, the book Beloved is recommended. I have read excerpts of this book and they are highly disturbing and full of obscenities. It is not at all suitable for children. Second, printing instruction is recommended to be given before cursive instruction. Back when good penmanship was the rule, rather than exception, this sequence was reversed, so I believe that tradition should be recontinued. Not mentioned in this book, the best penmanship instruction is the French method of vertical writing. It is scientifically developed to be entirely ergonomic, and it is elegant and easy to learn and write. Another element I believe can improve the curriculum is public-domain textbooks from the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1880-1919 or so, earlier books can be useful too). This is the time of the modern pinnacle of education, when methods and general knowledge had reached their highest level of refinement, right before the introduction of progressive education when we began our descent into the current dark age. Of course, not everything from that time period is sufficient; for instance, the theory of relativity had not yet been developed. But that is an ideal time period on which to base teaching methods. Such books are available here on Amazon often for very low prices. With these modifications, the curriculum presented in The Well-Trained Mind is ideal and I cannot praise it enough. Written on April 9, 2008 Summary: Invaluable resource! When I began seriously considering homeschooling my daughter, someone recommended this book as one of the first to get. I needed any help I could find, so I ordered it. What I got was an amazingly readable guide to an educational method I've always liked but didn't know by name. So many things in this book just clicked with me, especially the strong emphasis on reading real literature and the novel idea to teach history in chronological order. Imagine that! I've never been a history lover and this is a great chance to at least let my child enjoy it. Even if you end up not agreeing with everything in the book, or you decide the strict classical education is not for you - this book is still worth every cent! There is an amazing wealth of resources for every subject and encouraging bits of wisdom within - for everyone from unschoolers to to public school parents.  Written on April 4, 2008 Summary: Easy to use but lacks a Christian distinctive.... Put together well but lacking in a ChristianWorld View, August 31, 2004 I appreciated the way this book was put together-easy to gather basic facts, reading suggestions, etc. My beef would not be with the way the book is laid out. Anyone could pick the book up, follow the author's advice and have some success in home schooling, at least according to an acievement test. :| My concern with this book would be the same concernn for much of what I see in the classical movement that follows a greek model for education. As a Christian home educator, my goal is not to begin with the knowledge of man (the Greek mind-set) but with the knowledge of God (the Hebrew mind-set). I am interested in more than transference of knowledge, I want my children to understand the holiness of God. I am not interested in educating only to my child's aptitudes & talents, I am responsible for educating their whole person. In the end, I am accountable before God not for how well they "know thyself" but for how well they know God & submit to the authority of His Word. I do think that the classical model is superior if it follows a Hebrew model. This would be achieved if you sifted the ideas of this book through Scripture and taught children how to reason and relate from the Word of God. Of course, this book is not designed to do that & will not. If you are interested in the classical method, I would suggest in place of this book the following: 1. Teaching the Trivium by Harvey & Laurie Bluedorn 2. The Noah Plan Self Directed Study in the Principle Approach from Foundation for American Christian Education. Either of those works will help you gain the mind of Christ in your education philosophy and help you develop a methodology that is in line with both the 1.classical "timing" of subjects and 2. the Scripture's commands to take every thought captive. Finally, while the book is put together in an easy to use manner, I would not necessarily desire any of their suggestions or follow their model. I would rather spend my money on one of the books I listed above. (I previously reviewed this under my fedwife id) |
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| Release date | 2004-04 | 2006-04-26 | 2002-12 | 2006-11-16 | 2004-10-30 | 2003-08 |
| Media | Hardcover | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Hardcover |
| Number of pages | 800 | 350 | 420 | 300 | 400 | 432 |
| Ean | 9780393059274 | 9781933339009 | 9780971412927 | 9781933339054 | 9780972860314 | 9780393050943 |
| Book Isbn | 0393059278 | 1933339004 | 0971412928 | 1933339055 | 0972860312 | 0393050947 |
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