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The focus on great books and rigorous academics is so tempting to this ISTJ. But at the end of the day, there is not really enough room in this program for the average student to develop a love of learning. Even to me - someone who really loves reading, writing, and learning in general - the emphasis on those aspects of education sounded so incredibly boring! I would want for my students to get outside of the house and have actual experiences more often.

The model here would be great for those kids who excel in language naturally. They may very well like all the reading and writing that is required. For anyone who struggles with these skills, the program will frustrate and discourage, rather than inspire them to keep going. If a student is considering a trade school, or is questioning whether they need to go to college at all, the classical education as it's presented here is simply not likely to be the best option.

The authors state that the book is just a guide, and aspects can be tweaked for your particular children, but then in other sections, they list certain "musts" and such - the tone overall tends to lean toward a strict curriculum.

There is some great information within these pages, however! There are tons of resources, gathered all into one place, guides to what children should know at certain grade levels, and even some good thoughts. Although, the book is pretty repetitive - it could have been condensed quite a bit!

Grammar Stage (Grades 1-4)

"Young children are described as sponges because they soak up knowledge. But there's another side to the metaphor. Squeeze a dry sponge and nothing comes out. First the sponge has to be filled." pp 21-22

Logic Stage (Grades 5-8)

"The middle-grade student still absorbs information. But instead of passively accepting this information, she'll be interacting with it - deciding on its values, its purpose, and its place in the scheme of knowledge." p 231

Rhetoric Stage (Grades 9-12)

"Rhetoric is the art of expression... Since self-expression is one of the greatest desires of adolescence, high school students should have training in the skills of rhetoric so that they can say, clearly and convincingly, what's on their minds. Without these skills, the desire for self-expression is frustrated." p 465
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RachelRachelRachel | 4 altre recensioni | Nov 21, 2023 |
I'm not fond of the classical method of education. Especially for homeschool moms, I feel like it can lead to a lot of bondage that lends itself to overlooking ways in which education can be personalized for each child within your home.
 
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llane | 14 altre recensioni | May 19, 2016 |
3.5 stars.

I have some mixed feelings about this book. I did find it very informative and liked some of the methods/suggestions/resources. At the same time time though, it made me feel like what I've been doing so far with my 6 and 5 year olds has been inadequate and that they are already "behind" and that it would be hard to catch them up to the standards of a classical education.
 
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reigningstars | 6 altre recensioni | Dec 4, 2014 |
I bought this book years ago, when I had entertained the idea of homeschooling my child. That did not happen. I decided to read through the book, however, when I found that many of my students (college level) do not know English grammar very well. I don't mean they make grammar mistakes in their own language, but that they can't identify a verb tense or distinguish between an adjective and a noun very easily. Since I teach Russian language, I thought maybe I could use some techniques from this book to help my students grasp how words work in an English sentence to help them in constructing Russian sentences (which is an inflected language).

I soon saw that this book was useless for my purposes, but I find the approach to teaching young children grammar very interesting. It is not a "new" approach, in fact--it is very old-fashioned. Jessie Wise uses memorization as the main tool. The child, with the help of the parent, memorizes the definitions of grammatical categories (noun, adjective, verb, sentence, etc.), terms, lists. By the end of the book (which contains 200 lessons that are to be covered in two years), the child can recognize and define all the parts of the sentence.

What is new about this approach is how Ms. Wise goes about it. Every lesson is scripted: what the parent says, how many times he/she must say it, how many times the child must repeat after the parent, activities for the child to do. Lest this sound incredibly boring for both parties, I must say Ms. Wise has done a fine job of keeping up momentum with each lesson. Yes, every lesson starts with a "repeat after me 3 times" rote learning of a definition or rule, but then is followed by exercises that are kinetic (the child must respond physically either acting out the words, or going around the house finding examples), or engage a child's imagination (reading fairy tales and then finding the verbs, acting out the verbs, or drawing pictures of events in the story, looking at pictures and creating a narrative about it). Activities include dictation, drawing, writing letters, giving oral descriptions and reading aloud. The lessons are generally short (probably about 15 -30 minutes per lesson depending on the activities) and progress in sort of a spiral fashion--moving forward and reviewing at the same time.
I have to say that I think memorization has gotten short-shrift in our generation. I think I had to memorize one poem in all my elementary school years. This book has the child memorize 10 poems by the end of the lessons, and read another 12, all of them wonderful. The book teaches them, step by step, how to memorize things (which we also don't teach our children in schools). As a building block of critical thinking, being able to identify and remember facts, to put things in categories and know what order things go in, memorization has a place. I don't know how one would translate her teaching methods into a classroom (this is geared towards the homeschooler), but I think she is onto something important here.
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Marse | 4 altre recensioni | Mar 6, 2014 |

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