The Well–Trained Mind – A Guide to Classical Education at Home - Hardcover

Wise, Jessie; Bauer, Susan Wise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393047520 ISBN 13: 9780393047523

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999

Synopsis

This guide seeks to help parents supplement their child's education at home. It instructs the parent on how to give the child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through to high school - one that will train them to read, think, and understand.

About this title

About the Authors

Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series, all from W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary.

Jessie Wise, a former teacher, is a home education consultant, speaker, and writer. She has decades of experience as a classroom teacher, elementary school principal, private tutor, and educational consultant, and is the co-author of the best-selling The Well-Trained Mind and the groundbreaking elementary grammar text First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind. She lives in Charles City, Virginia.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393047520
• ISBN 13: 9780393047523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 736