The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

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"Outstanding ... should be on every home educator's reference bookshelf." ???Homeschooling Today 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. .

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SUSAN WISE BAUER teaches literature at the College of William & Mary. Her mother, JESSIE WISE, a former teacher, is a home education consultant, speaker and writer.

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It's a great book not only for homeschooling families but for any parents who are keen to give their children good education. Can be used as an extra resource for parents of schoolchildren as well as home schoolers. Very thorough work, but quite easy to read.