Conversation
Notices
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"Our search led us to the classical model of education that was practiced by scholars as long as there has been learning. The application and success of the model is not confined to a single time or place, though its name refers to the Greek and Roman eras. We discovered that wherever and whenever man had achieved high levels of literacy, the classical skills of grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric had been emphasized over job training or vocational studies. So we chose to travel down a new path, actually an ancient road, with our four boys. After much work, we discovered that we could participate in the conversations of mankind’s greatest thinkers. Their words allowed us to more confidently confront the problems of daily living."
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"C. S. Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, said, “The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come.”"
Even true to this day.
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"I refer to today’s education as “factory education” because, historically, the industrial age coincided with a national mandate to provide public education for the masses. In order to take on this enormous task, school systems replicated some of the efficiencies built into a large factory, as if they could ignore the fact that the “components” coming down the “assembly line” were children."
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"Both factory and computer education rob a child of the need to think and replace loving, caring mentors with a machine or a system. The classical model emphasizes that learning feeds the soul and edifies the person rather than producing employees to work an assembly line. The goal of a classical education is to instill wisdom and virtue in people. We see learning as a continuing conversation that humankind has been engaged in for centuries, and we are concerned that industrialization and technologies reduce contact and context between children and their elders."
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"Parents and teachers ask me about classical education nearly every day. They know something is just not quite right with contemporary education, and they know it’s not right because their child isn’t learning as much or as well as he or she could. You know that education should connect your family to the best of history while preparing them for the future. The classical model provides insights not only into what your family could be learning, but also how to learn it. Then your family can also listen to the wisdom of the past, and their voices can help us evaluate our daily lives and see our place and purpose in a broader historical perspective."
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"The most important point I can make is that any parent who really tries can become more involved in his or her children’s education. There are many families who like working and learning together. It is not always easy, but it is rewarding to guide your children’s education. The first requirement is to believe that it is important and that you can do it. Whenever I hear a parent groan, “I could never homeschool my children” or “The classical model is too hard,” I find I have to agree with them—not for everyone, but for those who lack confidence. The person who says, “I can” and the person who says, “I can’t” are both right. I believe every parent can participate in the restoration of our culture to one that appreciates classical learning, but only if they will believe it about themselves. I believe the strong love of parents for their children makes them capable of providing a quality education for children centered from the home."
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"Before I embraced the classical model, I felt I was living in the wrong century and with the wrong tribe. Classical studies introduced me to all of my lost relatives. I now feel that my sense of the world has grown by two thousand years. The voices from the past expand how I see and understand the world around me. I feel as though we hear a deeper, more confident voice and can respond in kind."
Maybe I can find it here too. I'm clearly in the wrong century and with the wrong tribe. A tribe that doesn't care for its own properly, because it would rather be 'caring' for other tribes.
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