Homeschool Fever

Anyone familiar with early childhood education has certainly encountered the montessori method.  With private montessori schools springing up all over the nation, many homeschooling parents are now embracing this method of hands-on childhood learning for their own children.  Here is the original book detailing the Montessori method of education, written by Marie Montessori herself.  
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Comparisons to other city-states:
Spartan education is public, Athenian is private.
Sparta educates for war, Athens for peace.
Childhood
(1 to 7 years)

Family education
Plays, myths, stories
Care of the mother

Boyhood (1 to 14 years, School)

Promenade to school under the care of a pedagogue
Music

Poetry, Homer, Hesiod.
Writing of verses from dictation
Reading, intonation, articulation.
Music proper. Doric airs accompanied by the lyre [...]

What sort of education did the ancient Spartan’s receive? Here is a list of their educational methods from birth to manhood, taken from the “Outline History of Education”.

* If you are familiar with current homeschooling theories such as Unschooling and Charlotte Mason, you will recognize much of those theories in here!
Basic principles

Follow nature
Uniformity in all things
Continuity sequence and serial order
Practice expression and sense impression
Popular and complete education. Pansophy. Encyclopedic training.

General method

Learn to do by doing
Present to as many senses as possible
Things before [...]

Outline History of Education By Felix Arnold
This 109 page public domain book from 1911, written in outline form, details the many educational theories and style of education that has evolved over the course of human history. It’s a very interesting read for anyone who is interested in a psychological overview of education and [...]

363 page free public domain book written in 1893.  Download it here.
From the Preface:
It is the purpose of this book to make good writers.
The extensive and constantly increasing use of the work as a text book demonstrates the confidence of teachers in the method which is its distinguishing feature. Based upon the educational maxim “Learn [...]

EVERYTHING in nature takes place according to laws.
This which is true of material things is also true of the operations of the mind. These follow laws of which we are not always aware. Language for instance follows laws of grammar and these laws in any particular language are the same whatever the subject may be [...]

A Complete Latin Course for the First Year Comprising an Outline of Latin Grammar, and a Series of Progressive Exercises in Reading and Writing Latin, with Frequent Practice in Reading at Sight By Albert Harkness
This volume is intended to furnish the pupil a complete course for his first year in tha study of Latin.
It conducts [...]

The following article was found in Greek for Beginners … By Edward Gustin Coy, and written well over 100 years ago.  In it, the author discusses the value of rote memorization of facts and making use of a child’s active memory.  You can view and then download this entire free lesson book by clicking on [...]

Rhetoric is both a science and an art.
It is a science when it discovers and establishes the laws of discourse, an art when the laws are applied in practice. Rhetoric is therefore the science of the laws of effective discourse or the art of speaking and writing effectively.
The word Rhetoric was first applied to spoken [...]

The article below was found in Outline History of Education By Felix Arnold, written in 1911.  You can download this entire free book here.

Virtue

Possess the proper religious ideas.
Preserve the mind from notions of spirits goblins fearful apprehensions in the dark, etc.
Form the habit of exactly speaking the truth.
Develop good nature Injustice generally springs from [...]

The following 152 page textbook, Greek for Beginners, was published as a companion lesson text for 1884 Hadley-Allen Greek Grammar, a standard “classical text book”, used in the bygone days when all higher educated Americans learned Greek and studied the classics.  It was designed for the older beginning greek student (high school and beyond) includes [...]

This engaging, teacher-friendly guide provides the latest research on strategies, ideas, and resources for teaching Greek and Latin roots-prefixes, suffixes, and bases. It introduces the vocabulary learning strategies that will improve comprehension and content vocabulary knowledge. Change the way you teach vocabulary with this book and start students on the path to a lifelong enjoyment [...]

For this week’s Work’s for Me Wednesday (Hosted by Rocks in my Dryer) , I did a tutorial of Google books.
Being an avid reader (and lifelong book lover), I LOVE google books and use it all the time. I get quite giddy even thinking of all the books at my instant disposal. Many people haven’t yet [...]

This scarce antiquarian book is included in the special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and [...]