As a mom who can’t afford private schools and is horrified by the current state of public education in my country (USA), I’m keenly interested in rational homeschool curriculum ideas—both explicitly teaching rationality itself, and also teaching specific subjects in a rational way. Teaching the skills necessary for self-education might be a third topic.
I was homeschooled—I should ask my mom about resources she used. It is worth noting that the three of us siblings all became readers, and she provided us with good textbooks to work from. I taught myself algebra and geometry out of a geometry textbook she bought, for instance.
(I think I saw a copy of John Holt’s How Children Fail around the house once, to name an author who appeared in a few Rationalty Quotes threads, but I really don’t know if that was a significant part of my parents’ thinking.)
Rational Education
As a mom who can’t afford private schools and is horrified by the current state of public education in my country (USA), I’m keenly interested in rational homeschool curriculum ideas—both explicitly teaching rationality itself, and also teaching specific subjects in a rational way. Teaching the skills necessary for self-education might be a third topic.
I was homeschooled—I should ask my mom about resources she used. It is worth noting that the three of us siblings all became readers, and she provided us with good textbooks to work from. I taught myself algebra and geometry out of a geometry textbook she bought, for instance.
(I think I saw a copy of John Holt’s How Children Fail around the house once, to name an author who appeared in a few Rationalty Quotes threads, but I really don’t know if that was a significant part of my parents’ thinking.)