The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education

[IsabelC]

http://www.amazon.com/Core-Teaching-Foundations-Classical-Education/dp/023010035X/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272944486&sr=1-8

 

Has anyone read this book?

Is it worth reading?

 

Thanks

[usetoschool]

I don't think it is available yet unless the release date is just for another edition or a previously available book. Looks interesting though. I think the woman is the founder of Classical Conversations?

Edited May 4, 2010 by jcooperetc

[SonshineLearner]

I don't think it is available yet unless the release date is just for another edition or a previously available book. Looks interesting though. I think the woman is the founder of Classical Conversations?

 

Yup, You're right... it is Leigh Bortins. If you're gonna get it, this would be a great time for her, because it's a pre-order.

 

:)

[IsabelC]

Ah, well that would explain why it isn't available in my local library (silly me, didn't check the date :blush:)

[forty-two]

I find one of the categories that Amazon has filed this book under to be rather funny:

Education Theory -> Contemporary Methods -> Experimental :001_huh::lol:

[plain jane]

Any thoughts on whether this would be a good read or not?

[kalanamak]

Any thoughts on whether this would be a good read or not?

 

Any thoughts on how religious it is?

[elizabeth]

Any thoughts on how religious it is?

 

http://www.classicalconversations.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170&Itemid=284 I think the link will clarify the question .

[newlifemom]

*****DISCLAIMER******

 

I AM A CHALLENGE A DIRECTOR FOR CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS.

 

 

Just so you know where I am coming from, and no I don't make any money for promoting anything! :tongue_smilie:

 

 

Whew!

 

I enjoyed her other book Echo in Celebration: A Call Home-Centered Education Of course, I guess you could call me a follower. :D She is not secular. The premise of a classical Christian home education is not

a singularly Classical Conversations idea, so I would think that anyone interested in this approach to homeschooling would enjoy it. She is an engineer and her writing style matches that.

 

I really enjoy listening to her. She is inspiring.

 

HTH

:001_smile:

[cdrumm4448]

I think I heard someone at Practicum say buy the book over Memorial Day weekend. That way the large book outlets will notice her sales volume and carry the book.

[kalanamak]

http://www.classicalconversations.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170&Itemid=284 I think the link will clarify the question .

 

One wishes this was in the squib at Amazon. What I have learned from Amazon, is that if it is about homeschooling and NOT unschooling, assume religious content until proven otherwise.

[SonshineLearner]

One wishes this was in the squib at Amazon. What I have learned from Amazon, is that if it is about homeschooling and NOT unschooling, assume religious content until proven otherwise.

 

Very confident it will be with content from a Christian Worldview, since Classical Conversations exists "To know God and make Him known."

 

:)