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Making Your Child a Part of the Homeschooling Process
There are a myriad of different reasons why individuals choose to homeschool their children there is the financial benefit of avoiding high private school fees; there is the convenience of scheduling education around other family activities etc. One of the most significant benefits of homeschooling is the flexibleness with which you can tailor your [...]
Review: The Well-Trained Mind
This book is written by a mom and former homeschooled daughter from the late ’70s. They introduce the reader to theclassical education method, a greek influenced liberal arts education which involves training children based on the “Trivium” (Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric stage / age progression). A complete curriculum, including implementation advice and book lists, is laid out from kindergarten [...]
6 Parts of the Dialectic (Logic) Stage in the Trivium
1. Philosophical.
Process of forming concepts or categories as “Appearance and reality,” “Form and change,” etc.
2. Educational . Method of dialogue tending to reach the formation of a general truth relating to conduct or life.
3. Psychological. Formation of concepts from percepts.
4. Logical. Resolution of a species into a genus or the reverse.
5. Scientific. Induction of general principles [...]
The Seven Liberal Arts of the Trivium and Quadrivium
What are the 3 components of the Trivium? Grammar, Dialectic (also known as Logic), and Rhetoric. What are the 4 components of the Quadrivium? Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, Astronomy.
Education and Use of the Trivium During the Middle Ages
The following article was found in the 1908 public domain book, A History of the Middle Ages By Dana Carleton Munro. You can download this entire book for free by clicking on the link above!
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DURING the early middle ages teaching was done wholly by the clergy. In some of the towns and villages there were elementary [...]
