the well trained mind by susan wise bauer

Thousands of parents and teachers have already used the detailed book lists and methods described in The Well-Trained Mind to create a truly superior education for the children in their care. Using this theory as your model, you'll be able to instruct your childwhether full-time or as a supplement to classroom educationin all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects.

Veteran home educators Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise 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. 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 schoolone that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Produktbeschreibung 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's educationby doing it yourself.

The well trained mind by susan wise bauer