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Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style
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This book explains what the Trivium and Classical Education are all about and why it is important for parents to teach their children how to learn. You will discover how to give your children the tools they need to teach themselves, how to homeschool in a classical style without compromising your Christian principles, and how to do it without buckling under the burden. This approach to homeschooling will renew your family vision and restore biblical order to the education of your children.
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Item Specifications...
Pages 637
Dimensions: Length: 8.7" Width: 6.1" Height: 1.6"
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jan 1, 2001
Publisher Trivium Pursuit
ISBN 0974361631
EAN 9780974361635
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 | Perfect Example of Self-Righteousness May 31, 2007 |
| The author spends a good part of the book blasting the public schools and private ( including Christian ) schools. He also says that children should not have independent relationships outside of the family. He also demeans the importance of Sunday School. I do believe that parents are responsible for ensuring their child's education and spiritual growth. But to go so far as to say that a person is out of God's will if they don't homeschool is extreme legalism. He twists the context of the majority of Bible verses to back up his many opinions on how children should be raised. I have read many homeschool books and I realize with all you must sift through the author's bias to get ideas, etc. This book was full of arguments on why homeschooling is THE only true education. I did not appreciate the self-righteous attitude of the author. | | |  | Fascincating vision for a Christ-centered education Mar 22, 2007 |
I have been homeschooling in the classical method for 3 years now, but this book makes it so clear just what is the "classical" method and how can it be of use to Christians.
I have been challenged to become seeped in a God-centered approach to educating my children and to not simply replicate a godless school structure with a few Bible verses thrown in here and there. This challenge is not only laid out very carefully and thoughtfully by the Bluedorns, but they give scripture repeatedly throughout the book to back up any claims they make. I was convinced and convicted within the first two chapters and am now contemplating how I will rethink and redeem what we are already doing. | | | | Excellent Resource! Mar 7, 2007 |
As a former Valedictorian with a relatively positive public school experience people are often surprised to learn of my choice to homeschool, especially since my faith was not a factor when I made that decision. My reasons hinged on the fact that, though I got excellent grades, I knew and understood very little that I could apply practically. I was skilled at memorization and test-taking, making me a "success". Harvey & Laurie Bluedorn's Teaching the Trivium focuses on this very concern.
"How can you give your children the tools they need to teach themselves? Long ago students were first taught how to learn. Today, students are taught an encyclopedia of subjects - trivia - but they are not taught the basic skills of learning: to discover, to reason, and to apply. They are not taught the Trivium." ~Bluedorn
Teaching the Trivium is 640 pages explaining the "whys" as well as the "hows" of educating your child Classically without compromising your Christian principles. You'll find schedules, courses of study, principles for teaching literature and much more. If you desire to raise Godly children who are able to teach themselves anything: to discover, to reason , to apply - then this book is a must-read. Whether you're sold on Classical Education or not you'll find much to consider and apply.
| | | | Try Something Else May 24, 2006 |
There is no program in this book that anyone can really follow. It is a hodge-podge of half-baked ideas, by someone obviously has no serious education (a possible highschool graduate), and who admits they did not get involved with their own children's schooling until they were nearly grown.
You will find after reading this book, even if you would happen to agree with it, that there is nothing in it that will actually help you educate your children. You may shake your head and look wise, and claim you are teaching your children the trivium, but if that is what you intend to do you will have to start from scratch and make up your own program.
What is all this about the so-called trivium of ancient Greece and Rome (who were never any friend to Christians)? Why not the three Rs - Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic (which are not trivial)? Teach these and your child can acquire on his (or her) own anything else they need to know.
Plain, it's true, but it actually works.
| | | | The Diamond Our Family Found May 2, 2006 |
"There are books to be tasted, a few to be swallowed, but, this book should be consumed by readers".
How would you feel about a book that could give you tools to learn any subject-including the discipline of "Family Medicine"?
There isn't a medical school in the world that even exist that will give you the tools you need to learn family medicine.
While Teaching the Trivium does not teach medical courses, it does give you the tools to pursue any subject you want.
Most books and curriculum on the market today are written without the Trivium. They rarely ever show you the grammar stage (knowledge), the logic (understanding), stage or the rhetoric stage (application). Still, people have managed to learn many subjects through dismembered approachs like OBE (Out-come-based-education).
Let Teaching The Trivium bring order out of chaotic learning.
You are in for the time of your life if you learn this book because it has a bonus for any family who will really put into practice this sensible approach.
The Bonus?
The families that are now using this book to learn and teach their own children will become tomorrow's articulated authors. Unfortunately I won't be alive to see it all play out, but I bid them well. It will be their children and grand children who will produce great works of literature. Why? Because they are already learning how to collaborate with the great Trivium mind. Too long has the Trivium be kept under key and lock in old dusty ancient academics. Rediscover the lost tools that could change your life and your posterity forever.
The Homeschool book market is inundated every year with new books written for Homeschool parents. But how many actually deliver tools for learning on your own?
Doing the "Teaching the Trivium" tap dance : )
Reviewed by Maribel Hernandez (APMFormulators)
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