A guide to classical education at home. Is your child getting lost in the system, becoming bored, losing his or her natural eagerness to learn?
The Well Trained Mind
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- A guide to classical education at home. Is your child getting lost in the system, becoming bored, losing his or her natural eagerness to learn? If so, it may be time to take charge of your child education by doing it yourself. The book will instruct on how to five your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from pre-school through high school – one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. The author 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”, when the building blocks of information are absorbed through memorization and rules; The middle school “logic stage” in which the student begins to think more analytically and the high school “rhetoric stage” where the student learns to write and speak with force and originality.