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The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education

10 best books like The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education (Leigh A. Bortins): The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century, Educating the Wholehearted Child, Charlotte Mason Companion, Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style, The Three R's, Homeschooling for Excellence, The Latin-Centered Curriculum: A Homeschooler's Guide to a Classical Education, Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition, Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace

The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
AuthorSusan Wise Bauer
ISBN0393059278
This book 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...
A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century
AuthorOliver DeMille
Is American education preparing the future leaders our nation needs, or merely struggling to teach basic literacy and job skills? Without leadership education, are we settling for an inadequate system that delivers educational, industrial, governmental and societal mediocrity? In A Thomas Jefferson...
Educating the Wholehearted Child
AuthorClay Clarkson
ISBN1888692006
In my sixteen years of homeschooling I have read a lot of homeschool how to and encouragement books. Educating the WholeHearted Child is one I have seen throughout the years but never picked up. The day this new edition came up for review, I was feeling rather discouraged. I'd followed the supposed formula...
Charlotte Mason Companion
AuthorKaren Andreola
ISBN1889209023
This is a thorough chapter-by-chapter overview of the inspiring teaching principles of Christian educator Charlotte Mason from the original Charlotte Mason authority, speaker, and columnist, Karen Andreola. With warmth and humor, Karen provides a wealth of insight, practical advice, and narratives,...
Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style
AuthorHarvey Bluedorn
ISBN0974361631
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 but they are not taught the basic skills of learning: to discover, to reason, and to apply. They are not taught the trivium.

Can...
The Three R's
AuthorRuth Beechick
ISBN0880620749
The Three R's Now all in one book! A Home Start in Reading A Strong Start in Language An Easy Start in Arithmetic Three resources in one READING, WRITING, and ARITHMETIC! Learn how to take the mystery out of teaching the early grades with this practical, down-to-earth guidebook from Ruth Beechick. The...
Homeschooling for Excellence
AuthorDavid Colfax
ISBN0446389862
THE COLFAXES DIDN'T START TEACHING THEIR BOYS AT HOME TO GET THEM INTO HARVARD - BUT THAT'S WHAT HOMESCHOOLING ACCOMPLISHED!

For over fifteen years, David and Micki Colfax educated their children at home. They don't think of themselves as pioneers, though that's what they became. Unhappy...
The Latin-Centered Curriculum: A Homeschooler's Guide to a Classical Education
AuthorAndrew A. Campbell
ISBN1930953712
Andrew Campbell's new book, The Latin Centered Curriculum, gives teachers and parents an interesting and easy to read guide explaining classical education, how it came about, and who its major exponents are. In addition to a useful scope and sequence for how a Latin-centered classical education...
Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition
AuthorKaren Glass
The educators of ancient Greece and Rome gave the world a vision of what education should be. The medieval and Renaissance teachers valued their insights and lofty goals. Christian educators such as Augustine, Erasmus, Milton, and Comenius drew from the teaching of Plato, Aristotle, and Quintilian...
Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace
AuthorSarah Mackenzie
In the book of Philippians we are told to be anxious over nothing, and yet we are anxious over everything. We worry that our students will be "behind," that they won't score well on the SAT, get into a good college, or read enough of the Great Books. Our souls are restless, anxiously wondering if something...
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning
AuthorDouglas Wilson
ISBN0891075836
Public education in America has run into hard times. Even many within the system admit that it is failing. While many factors contribute, Douglas Wilson lays much blame on the idea that education can take place in a moral vacuum. It is not possible for education to be nonreligious, deliberately excluding...
Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading
AuthorLawrence Goldstone
ISBN0812970284
“Books are like puzzles,” write Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone. “The author’s ideas are hidden, and it is up to all of us to figure them out.” In this indispensable reading companion, the Goldstones–noted parent-child book club experts–encourage grownups and young readers alike to...
Beauty for Truth's Sake: The Re-Enchantment of Education
AuthorStratford Caldecott
ISBN1587432625
Own. Wish I could do 3.5 stars.

I’m both smarter and dumber after reading this book.

This book is unabashedly Roman Catholic; quoting RC theologians and philosophers regularly and consistently, including the two most recent Popes frequently. His section on learning being by...
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
AuthorAnthony M. Esolen
ISBN1935191888
I tend to enjoy most books I read (easily entertained, I guess), but don't let my low book standards detract from my statement that this is one of the best books I've ever read. While it appears to be a book on child-raising (and sort of is), I'd recommend it to anyone, parent or not. The author is clearly brilliant,...
Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
AuthorTracy Lee Simmons
ISBN1882926730
Discussions of educational reform often involve windy talk of a "return to the classics," yet rarely do would-be reformers go so far as to advocate a return to education in the classical languages themselves. That is a program that strikes even the most stalwart critics of contemporary educational...
Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education
AuthorDavid V. Hicks
ISBN0761814671
A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience,...
100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum: Choosing the Right Educational Philosophy for Your Child's Learning Style
AuthorCathy Duffy
ISBN0805431381
The key to successful home education, homeschool veterans will tell you, is determining your educational philosophy and marrying it to your child’s learning style. Then you can make an informed decision in choosing the right educational curriculum for the child. This is the formula for success.In...
Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum: A Guide to Catholic Home Education
AuthorLaura M. Berquist
ISBN0898706602
Home educator Laura Berquist presents a modern curriculum based on the time-tested philosophy of the classical Trivium—grammar, logic and rhetoric. She has given homeschoolers a valuable tool for putting together a "liberal arts" curriculum that feeds the soul, as well as the intellect. Her...
Parents and Children
AuthorCharlotte M. Mason
ISBN0842313567
This book has been invaluable to me in my understanding of the Charlotte Mason method. I feel like so many principles came together for me in this second volume. Her reflections on parents and children are profound and would be inspiring to any parent.

I have so many favorite quotes from this...
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