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What is a good education? What is it for? To answer these questions, Stratford Caldecott shines a fresh light on the three arts of language, in a marvelous recasting of the Trivium whereby Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric are explored as Remembering, Thinking, and Communicating. These are the foundational steps every student must take towards conversion of heart and mind, so that a Catholic Faith can be lived out in unabashed pursuit of the True,...
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When Alison Bernhoft set out to homeschool her six children, her grand plans were constantly derailed by the second law of thermodynamics: Entropy. Entropy happens. It enters our houses, spreads toys and dishes around, creates chaos throughout the day, and most importantly steals our time. But Alison discovered that chaos and homeschooling are far from mutually exclusive; indeed, suitably restrained, entropy can be the best teacher of all.
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This book is for those parents interested in homeschooling and those who wish to be more effective in their communication with their children's teachers and administrators. It is the author's intent to provide a guide for gaining adequate general knowledge of homeschooling to those parents so that they are armed with the information necessary for them to confidently decide whether to homeschool or not. If they choose to school their children at home,...
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Homeschooling parents are under great pressure. Besides trying to balance teaching responsibilities and family life, they often face unrealistic expectations from relatives, churches, other homeschoolers, and society at large. Even parents considering homeschooling sense the need to be perfect. Sonya Haskins doesn't want any more families to give up on homeschooling. In this book she shares affirming stories and practical ideas from dozens of everyday...
45) School Education
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School Education, the third volume of Charlotte Mason's Homeschooling Series, consists of thoughts about the teaching and curriculum of children aged 9-12, either at school or at home. She suggests that parents should practice what she calls 'masterly inactivity': not neglectful or permissive parenting, but simply allowing children to work things out for themselves, do things for themselves, learn from their own mistakes, and to have time for free...
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The idea of homeschooling is both frightening and exciting. It is an idea that takes you out of mainstream thought and has you questioning your validity as a good parent. The thinking that your child should be removed from a public or private school and isolated in a home environment undoubtedly teeters on the right or wrong. Once a parent moves beyond this trend of negative thought, researches the vast amount of material related to homeschooling,...
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Lael Whitehead tells how she took her children out of school and allowed them to learn from life in a natural, self-directed way, without curriculum, grades, discipline or rewards. Whitehead describes the various ways in which her three daughters each designed their own unique educations. She introduces her concept of radical respect as the cornerstone of compassionate parenting. Sharing stories from her own experience, she shows that when children...
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Many believe that you need expensive materials, or a formal classroom, for true learning to take place. 100 Ways to Teach your Kids with Fruit sets out to challenge that notion. Parents can teach their children while preparing lunch, going to the park, or on the trip to school! Algebra, chemistry, English, drama, art, mathematics, and so much more, can be found in everyday life! Teachers are often instructed to look out for teachable moments; however,...
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Homeschooling isn't about teaching-it's about learning together with your child. In this indispensable guide, author and homeschooler Sherri Linsenbach provides you with the encouragement, inspiration, and ideas you need to explore this option for your family. It's packed full of ideas to make the experience easy, affordable, and, most of all, fun. Even veteran homeschoolers will find new ideas and techniques that help keep home education interesting...
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Why a growing number of parents choose not to send their children to public school. The companion book to the award-winning documentary 'IndoctrinNation', this eye-opening book includes: An unforgettable introduction by a father who lost his son in the Columbine school massacre: 'I put him in a pagan school where they teach there is no God.' 12 common reasons people give not to homeschool, and the manageable reality of this educational alternative....
52) Maradro Island
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Libro para niños, dedicado a la paz de mundo y a la preservación del medio ambiente mundial. Environmental children's book, dedicated to World Peace and environmental preservation worldwide.
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Actualmente, hay muchas familias en todo el mundo que educan fuera de la escuela y desde siempre ha habido quienes se resistieron a ella, ejerciendo su capacidad de aprender de distintas maneras. Por esta razón, para hacer este libro buscamos historias reales que muestran que es posible y gozoso, aunque no por eso sencillo, aprender en libertad.
Decidir que lxs hijxs no vayan a la escuela o ser docente y elegir salir de la escuela no son decisiones...
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Montessori at Home or School: How to Teach Grace and Courtesy is a bit like "Montessori meets Miss Manners." In Montessori, grace and courtesy is seen as an important part of a child's education and an important part of meeting a child's inner needs. The Montessori method provides a framework that can effectively be used with one child or a group of children. Part I talks about grace and courtesy for preschoolers and elementary-age children. Suggestions...
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Traditional schooling systems are proving to be suboptimal learning environments for many students of color. Black parents bear witness to the myriad of problems their children face at school and are becoming increasingly frustrated with the inability to implement positive and constructive change. Many understand the immense value an education provides and understand its empowering effects in the lives of their children. However, as traditional systems...
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Die moderne Gitarrenschule ermöglicht Dir, das klassische Gitarren-Spiel im Selbststudium ohne Gitarrenlehrer zu erlernen. Ziel dieser Schule ist es, den Schüler in einen Lernprozess zu versetzen bei dem er durch gezielte Übungen das Gitarrenspieles erlernt.Die wichtigsten Studien dieser Schule,werden im Internet auf www.flow-guitar.com als Video Tutorials dargestellt.
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Should we stay or should we go? Millions of parents with children in public schools can't believe they're asking this question. But they are. And you should be asking it too. Almost overnight, America's public schools have become morally toxic. And they are especially poisonous for the hearts and minds of children from religious families of every faith-ordinary families who value traditional morality and plain old common sense. Parents' first duty...
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Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature and handling natural objects and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention, thinking, imagining, remembering, and performing tasks...
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