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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why everyone should read A Well Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer - even if your children are in public school.  The Romans discovered the Trivium - grammar stage, logic stage and rhetoric stage.  It was abandoned during WW1 because the teaching profession didn’t thing immigrant children needed a classical education.  Seems things haven’t changed much, eh?  Elements of the grammar stage still were in schools in the 1970s public schools (as well as direct instruction).  This has all been abandoned for decades and replaced with the latest educational fads - and needs to come back.  The latest brain research has proven the Romans correct.[/quote]

This is fascinating to me. As I mentioned above, I grew up in Eastern Europe during the communist time and received an excellent education.  It was very classing in the sense that you had to simply memorize a lot of things.  We had to memorize an entire poem every week and recite it in front of the whole class.  I still remember my mom drilling me every week to make sure I learned it.  I STILL remember some poems.  We had to memorize multiplication and division, grammar rules, etc.  I learned two alphabets in first grade and cursive.  Our children are capable of so much more than the schools are offering them these days.[/quote]

Catholic schools still use a more classical approach.  I taught High school as a special
education teacher and I was an administrator at classical school for 1 year. CE is a game changer for kids—all kids.  The language development in the grammar stage is amazing. [/quote]

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