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Title: Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education (Turning Point Christian Worldview Series) by Doug Wilson, Douglas Wilson ISBN: 0-89107-583-6 Publisher: Good News Pub Pub. Date: April, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding!
Comment: This book is outstanding. Mr. Wilson presents excellent information about the educational and moral decay of the public school system. His argument for classical education is convincing. Anyone debating if they send their child to public school or private Christan scchol (or even homeschooling) should read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Championing the virtue of Chritian Education
Comment: Mr. Wilson's book on education is outstanding. Does it matter that a teacher is a Christian teacher or a secular one, in light of basic math problems? or perhaps history?-Yes. Read the various cases that Wilson wrote about and you will understand why this principle matters. Also he promotes the need to learn Latin among school age children, which is great; look how often our English language borrows from Latin. Above all I like this book because Wilson promotes the need for a truly Christian Education.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good for Every Christian School
Comment: Wilson has delivered a great book for anyone who sees nothing wrong with public education and wonders why some schools don't measure up or why the education reformers are complaining. He also challenges every existing Christian school to a high standard. First, he establishes his belief that public school is pitiful and brief addresses suggested reforms, and then he writes at length about a thoroughly Christian education. He says that a cleaned-up "public school" education within an environment where prayer and chapel is allowed does not make a Christian education or even a good secular education. We must raise the bar dramatically in order to allow all students to learn the most they can. What does that mean? It means teaching a classically structured curriculum or the Trivium. Wilson advocates training our students to engage "the great conversation" of the past by reading the Great Books of the Western Canon, as recommended by Mortimer Adler.
Personally, I think he's exactly right, but this book didn't scratch my inch as parent wanting to teach my children a classical education at home. In fact, Wilson doesn't think homeschool classical education is an achievable goal for the average family; but he doesn't advise against it. He warns that while it may be better than public school, it may not be as good as it should be, considering historical standards of education, not measuring it against currently failing public schools. For my needs, this book helped me only a little. The greatest help to me would have been in its appendices which can be found online at ... There are three: Dorothy Sayers article on the Trivium is of great help; a description of Logos School's classical curriculum provides good details on what to teach; and a history of education.
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Title: The Case for Classical Christian Education by Douglas Wilson ISBN: 1581343841 Publisher: Crossway Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Classical Education and the Home School by Douglas Wilson, Wes Callihan, Douglas Jones ISBN: 1885767854 Publisher: Canon Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory ISBN: 0801052726 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Repairing The Ruins by Douglas Wilson ISBN: 1885767145 Publisher: Canon Press Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer ISBN: 0393047520 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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