CLASSICAL EDUCATION

Ambleside Online http://www.amblesideonline.org/ Classical Education based on
Charlotte Mason's methods with recommended book lists for years 1-11. There is
information about composers and artists to study each term. Links to poetry, nature
study, folksong & hymns, Shakespeare and Plutarch selections are also available.
An Ambleside Online Conference was held July 30, 2005, in Dallas. It was outstanding!

Read more about Charlotte Mason's 20 Educational Principles and summaries of her books
at http://mywebpages.comcast.net/leslienoelani/Summaries.html

In case you missed this in a previous section, here is a repeat about the merits of narration.
"Narration Beats Tests" is an encouraging article written in 1993 by Karen Andreola. See
http://www.home-school.com/Articles/AndreolaNarration.html

"The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself
smooth and easy days; while she who lets their habits take care of themselves has a weary
life of endless friction with the children ... The mother devotes herself to the formation of
one habit at a time." --Charlotte Mason

Trivium Pursuit Online at http://www.triviumpursuit.com with Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn
authors of Teaching the Trivium - guides for teaching discovering (grammer),
reasoning (dialectic), and applying (rhetoric). To read an interview with the
Bluedorns, see http://www.homeschoolchristian.com/ChristianEd/Bluedorn.html
Learn about Logic at http://www.christianlogic.com/ with Nathaniel and Hans Bluedorn.
See their book, The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Six Lessons on How to Recognize Bad
Reasoning. Their new book is The Thinking Toolbox: Thirty-Five Lessons That
Will Build Your Reasoning Skills.

Veritas Press http://www.veritaspress.com/store/home.asp Good selection of materials
for classical education. History flashcards; Institute for Excellence in Writing, etc.

Queen Homeschool Supplies, the Charlotte Mason Store. See
http://www.queenhomeschool.com

Logos School & Curriculum: A Classical and Christ Centered Education.
Introductory Logic, Intermediate Logic, and Latin Primer I, II, and III, etc.;
video or DVD instruction is also available. See http://www.logosschool.com/.

Classical Christian Homeschooling - "classical education and its practical application in
grades K-12 for homeschooling families." This site has a good explanation of the trivium,
FAQ, links, and book lists. The webmaster is Christine Miller. See
http://www.classical-homeschooling.org/.

Critical Thinking Company is a resource for Critical Thinking Skills and more.
We have especially enjoyed using Building Thinking Skills and Mind Benders
worktexts for logic in the elementary grades. To visit their website, see
http://www.brightminds.us/home/products/best_sellers.html.

The Well Trained Mind: a Guide to Classical Education at Home by Jesse Wise and
Susan Wise Bauer (a little different from Charlotte Mason; author says that no one
can do everything in the book; the scheduling lists were required by the publisher.)

"For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves;
and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain."--Dorothy Sayers

Robinson Curriculum (22 self-teaching CD's) http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com
(22 self-teaching CD's for $195) Dr. Arthur Robinson is a scientist and father of 6 children.
Read about the sudden death of his wife in 1998 and how he managed to continue to
homeschool his children. Emphasis is on reading good books, writing, and math. I have read
that he wanted his children to learn to think and didn't give them a computer until after
completing a course in Calculus at about age 16; he also stressed a diet without sugar.

Rushton Family Ministries http://www.cindyrushton.com "A Time for Tea" is Cindy's
encouraging quarterly e-mail newsletter. Visit her website for a listing of her workshop tapes,
online articles, and books like Nature Study...the Easy Way!, Notebooking, and more.

"Why Shakespeare For Christian Students?" is an interesting article that can be found
at http://www.berith.org/hsres/shak/shak01.html. Two quotes that caught my attention
from this article read, "The King James translation of the Bible is incomparably the most
beautiful piece of literature in the English language. Shakespeare comes second."
and "If modern, English-speaking Christians -- whose worldviews now suffer from
the influence of TV and movies that are at best non-Christian and not infrequently
outright anti-Christian -- have a serious interest in learning to think like Christians,
Shakespeare is a nearly indispensable source." Our family will choose carefully
which Shakespeare plays to study and at what age, but "Taming of the Shrew"
is already a favorite of ours because our older daughter played Bianca in college,
and we saw it performed live.