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 school--one that will train him or her to read,
to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning.
Veteran home educators Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer 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," the middle school
"logic stage," and the high school "rhetoric stage." Using this theory
as your model, you'll 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.
This newly revised edition contains completely updated ordering
information for all curricula and books, new and expanded curricula
recommendations, new material on using computers and distance-learning
resources, answers to common questions about home education, information
about educational support groups, and advice on practical matters such
as working with your local school board, preparing a high school
transcript, and applying to colleges.
