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Title: The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Revised and Updated Edition by Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise ISBN: 0-393-05927-8 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (103 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Revision Is Even Better!
Comment: I own both copies of the Well-Trained Mind--the original and the revision--and the revision is a wonderful improvement on a wonderfully helpful original. The "how to" sections are clearer. All of the information is up to date. Readers can choose from a number of different curricula options; the authors give pros and cons for each. The resources are much simpler to use. For some subjects, the authors have included curricula, developed since the publication of the first book, that line up with the classical principles laid out in the original ground-breaking TWTM. These new resources are uniformly simpler to use and more affordable--and, in many cases, academically superior--to the original recommendations. In a total of FOUR PLACES, the authors recommend materials that they have developed themselves. That's FOUR PLACES in a book with literally HUNDREDS of resources. Those resources--the Story of the World series, First Language Lessons, The Ordinary Parents' Guide to Teaching Reading, and The Well-Educated Mind--are offered in the place of resources which many readers had trouble using--the Usborne history, which is fragmented and cartoon like; English for the Thoughtful Child, which is dated and requires way too much handwriting for many kids; Phonics Pathways, which is a GREAT phonics primer with absolutely NO help for the parent/teacher; and How to Read A Book, which the authors acknowledge is a classic BUT very hard for many high school students to read. (My kids are still middle school aged, but I've heard my home school friends gripe about all four of these resources.) Buy this revision. You won't be disappointed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Loved this Book!
Comment: We purchased The Well-Trained Mind less than a month ago, and I have read it cover to cover three times already. It is truly an eye-opening book!
My husband and I are new parents, and plan on homeschooling. I was searching for an acadmically challenging overview of HOW to go about providing a good education to our children. This book met our needs wonderfully!
While the authors have provided very detailed schedules, there is ample encouragement to adapt them to fit your lifestyle. We found the schedules a very helpful starting place, and we have already begun working on how we will use them to fit into our personal situation.
Also, although I am a Methodist minister myself, our reasons for homeschooling are not primarily religious. Our kids will get plenty of religion in our home no matter how they go to school! I have been somewhat turned off by the overwhelming and forceful evangelism of much homeschooling literature. While the authors are Christians themselves, this book was wonderfully written to offer both religious and secular alternatives to all curricula, with an evenhanded approach to evalutating resources.
If you are homeschooling your children, or simply want your kids to "fill in the gaps" of an inadequate education at school, this is a fantastic resource!
Rating: 5
Summary: The only thing I would change is the title
Comment: Thank you Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise for writing this book! I live in a state whose public school students consistently rank near the bottom of the nation and, as someone who learned to read when I was 3, the thought of waiting until age 6 to send my child to an underperforming school to learn the alphabet is downright frightening. Our public schools have their hands full with discipline problems, gang fights, and illegal immigrants who cannot speak or learn in English, and our private schools are very expensive for what would rank as an average education elsewhere. Homeschooling becomes almost a necessity and your book has given me the courage to do it. I am not kidding when I say this book has changed my mind about having to leave the state to find a decent education for my child. I am looking forward to starting with a brand new infant and singing the alphabet song every day. Thank you especially for the concrete book suggestions.
The only thing I would change about this book is the title, to include the word "homeschool". At first glance, it is not obvious that this book is about homeschooling, and I almost skipped over it on the bookstore's display table. I'm so glad I picked it up. I wish I had been educated this way, and this book will form the basis for my child's education. I can't thank you enough.
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Title: The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer ISBN: 0393050947 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child; Volume 1: Ancient Times by Susan Wise Bauer ISBN: 0971412901 Publisher: Peace Hill Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind by Jessie Wise, Sarah Park ISBN: 0971412928 Publisher: Peace Hill Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Phonics Pathways by Dolores G. Hiskes ISBN: 0962096733 Publisher: Dorbooks Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2: The Middle Ages by Susan Wise Bauer, Patty Martirosian, Jay Wise ISBN: 0971412936 Publisher: Peace Hill Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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