The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Revised and Updated Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  208 reviews
Sales Rank: 6876
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Rev Upd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 800
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 0393059278
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.0420973
EAN: 9780393059274
ASIN: 0393059278
Publication Date: April 2004
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"Outstanding...should be on every home educator's reference bookshelf."—Homeschooling Today 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 of the child's mind: the elementary school "grammar stage," the middle school "logic stage," and the high school "rhetoric stage." Using the trivium 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. Newly revised and updated, The Well-Trained Mind includes detailed book lists with complete ordering information; up-to-date listings of resources, publications, and Internet links; and useful contacts.
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 A Great Curriculum But don't Leave Out the Social and Emotional September 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful homeschooling guide with a strong curriculum. Combine this with another book Bully-Proofing Children: A Practical, Hands-On Guide to Stop Bullying so children are empowered with social and emotional skills along with a well-trained intellect. Has fabulous lessons and strategies to build character, self-esteem, communicative skills....Both books will produce well-rounded happy children.
 Look for the 1st Edition August 4, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is an excellent guide that EVERY homeschooler should have. HOWEVER, the 1999 edition has better resource lists in it, because it was written before Bauer and Wise began publishing their own Language and History books. I checked out the 1st edition from the library and LOVED it. I was a bit disappointed to get the 2nd edition (2004). I don't like the fact that they now recommend their own books, and don't recommend much else that would compete with their own series in these subject areas.
The Well Trained Mind July 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book helped motivate me and give me the resources to feel confident about homeschooling my daughter. I would highly recommend it.
A Must-Read for Anyone Considering Home-Schooling July 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"The Well-Trained Mind" has been a very informative read and strikes true with many of my own ideals about what a good education should be. The resource lists are amazing and those alone should be enough for anyone to by this wonderful reference material. The authors are very honest about how much effort and energy are required for home-schooling, but by the end of the book the reader is left feeling as though they could take on the world.
An Excellent Resource For Parents July 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a must-have tool for any parent of a homeschooler or for that matter of any school-age student. Filled with great information on curriculum and strategies; I recommend it very highly.
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