Do you prefer the recommendations in LCC 1 or 2?

[mo2]

I have the first edition and love the philosophy. I have been unable to purchase the second edition due to budget constraints. :glare: It looks like he has restructed a lot of subject areas. Do you feel that this, and the new curriculum recs, reading lists, etc, make it worthwhile to purchase the 2nd ed?

[laylamcb]

Well, I of course want to say an emphatic YES. LCC2 is really great, and Drew has substantially restructured elements of the scope and sequence (doing away with the multi-threaded history entirely, for example). Having said that, the most important elements of LCC remain the same:

 

1. A traditional classical education is one focused on the classical languages and the civilizations from which they arose, and

 

2. One of the chief ordering principles of LCC is multum non multa.

 

If you've got those two and can't afford the second edition right now, you're still fine. LCC1 provides the roapmap for an AWESOME education.

 

When you find some spare cash, LCC2 is a great investment. :001_smile:

[dragons in the flower bed]

The recommendations in 2 are better for my family because I have issues with exposing little kids to problematic but traditionally beloved literature and because we have multiple kids in this house. The recommendations in 1 are better of you like more of a CM flavor. He takes out, for example, the Holling books and D'Aulaire bios in the early grades, and adds in some more straightforward worktexts like Evan-Moor's South America, North America, etc.

[elegantlion]

I have them both and personally I like LCC 2 better. I think either would be fine but I liked #2 because it gave me the steps need to start in 5th grade.

 

Now that I say that, I'm going back to look through LCC 1 since we are about to finish our first year.

[Malenki]

I have them both and actually preferred the scope for LCC 1 (so haven't sold it). It gave a bit more breathing room in the early grades and I liked doing two different histories at once. It would be more work to plan it since there isn't a handy-dandy Memoria Press guide for each year of American history.

 

Unrelated to your question, but I keep reading both over and over and really struggling with the multum non multa concept. We read a ton of books so the idea of really focusing (for school) on a few good books is throwing me off. BUT, the whole thing just appeals!

[Faithr]

I prefer LCC1. I like that it gives me a more general roadmap. I also like doing the two strands of history at once.

[Carmen_and_Company]

I prefer LCC1 for grammar & logic stage, and LCC2 for rhetoric stage dc.