Book Review - A Thomas Jefferson Education

Everyone needs a little light reading during their vacation, but it was not my light reading book. (In fact, if I was not currently on vacation, I would have finished it earlier, but while reading Disneyworld is difficult, even for me!) It gave me great knowledge and a lot of things to think about and reflect over.

I think that this book allows you to define the essence of my purpose of home schooling - to teach my kids how to think. DeMille did a great job explaining how the classics in every kind to encourage children to do so. This book was a particularly good time in my schedule to read, because it is not unusual to clarify several points made in "Curriculum Debate," and I found myself nodding his head and said: Ah, so that now it suddenly comes to light! I especially like how he clearly thought that a classic is not a great job of modeling human behavior and give us the opportunity to learn how to reason our way through them. I also appreciated how different books collapsed into categories, each category clearly defined. This is a big help to me, how to determine what types of books I'd read.

The thing that has become the most, was, however, parents need to model type of behavior we want our children represent. In this case, it states that we as parents should seriously reading and studying the classics, if we want our children to do so. Despite the fact that it is "duh" things, this is something that I think is often neglected.

Although I have seen references to Thomas Jefferson's education across the board LDS home schooling, points to the possibility of DeMille and the need in all types of schools, including public schools. It also discusses how the public schooled child can receive an education that allows them to think.

The Latter-day Saint, this book has a few points made in a variety of LDS conference calls, which speak of spiritual life and apply them to secular learning - which should not be a surprise. Basically, the student, who is responsible for his education. A student who does not think that what they learn, it is important to not learn the subject.

This book solidified a lot of vague ideas I had in mind for my school to home, and so I have to give him another good read - probably with a notebook in hand - before you mail it back to the owner. I am also will have to step down and make the purchase of this book!