The Father gives parents the key: “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, that you may fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you […]
The three As – Acquire, Analyze, Apply – relate to the three Biblical tools of learning. Children acquire knowledge (the Grammar stage), teens analyze that knowledge for truth (the Dialectic stage) and gain understanding, and young adults apply truth to real life decisions and current events (the Rhetoric stage) to walk in wisdom. It is […]
“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future, and crimes from society.” – Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography.
Let’s start with history. In the elementary curriculum, knowledge of history’s important events and persons is what children must learn: what happened, who was involved, where, and when. Traditionally, history textbooks have been used to impart this information. Children then learn the information for a test, and forget it promptly afterward. Why? Because they are […]
History of Western Civilization A biblical study of history begins with the history of Western Civilization. (Why?) Other civilizations and cultures may be studied as Western Civilization encounters them. However, the focus especially in the elementary years is the rise of Western Civilization, and of course the American nation if you are homeschooling in the […]
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