Comments on: How Wise and Bauer Systematize Classical Education

By: 10 Questions: What Is Your Home Education Philosophy? | The Classical Scholar

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:55:33 +0000

[...] Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer systematize classical education [...]

By: Home Education Philosophy of Unschooling by John Holt | The Classical Scholar

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:54:19 +0000

[...] home education philosophies? Charlotte Mason believed in living books. Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer systematize classical home education more like a public school model. Oliver van DeMille preaches the leadership home education [...]

By: The Living Books Home Education Philosophy of Charlotte Mason | The Classical Scholar

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:53:26 +0000

[...] prefer to develop a well-trained mind with the systematic instructions for a reinterpretation of classical home education proposed by Bauer and Wise. Other homeschool parents yearn to raise leaders, so DeMille’s home education [...]

By: Classical Education Primer for your Home School | The Classical Scholar

Classical Education Primer for your Home School | The Classical Scholar — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:24:33 +0000

[...] in its infancy, and many variations in practice exist like the classical model of Charlotte Mason, Susan Wise Bauer, and Oliver Van DeMille. In their excitement to embrace a classical home education, many parents [...]

By: Sade

Sade — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:07:40 +0000

Thank you for replying my comment. I guess it never occurred to me to follow a single approach to homeschooling. I use a combination of unschooling, the well-trained mind, charlotte mason and whatever else my family feels like on a single day. I think that every approach is wonderful if it keeps our children home with us. Hopefully, all homeschoolers are wise enough to not just blindly follow a single approach.

By: DAwne

DAwne — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:47:29 +0000

If you want a better approach to Classical homeschooling, Sade, I recommend http://www.triviumpursuit.com

By: Diane

Diane — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:09:11 +0000

Sade,
Thank you so much for your honest response to the 2 posts. I AM trying to help you, but a blog is limited to short pieces (and mine tend to run long!), so you don’t have the full picture yet. Please be patient with me as I lay out my own philosophy over the next few weeks.

You may recall that after the first TWTM post which criticized the Wise/Bauer plan, I ran a post on “Three Simple But Significant Steps To A Classical Education” which I promised to do a series on. This series which reveals MY philosophy of classical education will be released before the end of February, but I decided to run 4 posts on authors who had also varied the historical model (Holt, Mason, Wise/Bauer, & DeMille) before I started preaching about how I had tweaked the model.

As for being both critical and complimentary of Wise/Bauer, that’s just how I feel. I admire them for their initiative in stepping out to inspire so many parents to try a classical education, but I am equally concerned about the way that they took what was a simple model and forced it into a rigid, 12 year format. Does that make sense?

I hope you’ll stick around. I think what we are doing in our home now is so much easier and less stress on us all than what we were doing when we followed TWTM model. That said, every family must find what works best for them, so I hope you find some help here.

Diane

By: Sade

Sade — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:31:04 +0000

Diane,

I used to enjoy your website, but I am beginning to find it a bit confusing. In one article you criticize the Well-Trained Mind (”Why The Well-Trained Mind Will Cause You to Fail” and promise to deliver a better approach to Classical Education,and then the next week, you are giving a glowing review (”Jessie and Susan Bauer Systemize Classical Education”) of the book! Well, which is it?

I hope you really are trying to help me and not just stir up controversy. Our children depend on it, please say your mind.

Thanks,

Sade

By: 10 Questions: What Is Your Home Education Philosophy? | The Classical Scholar

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:04:46 +0000

[...] Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise Systematize The Well-Trained Mind [...]

By: Why The Well-Trained Mind Will Drive You Crazy! | The Classical Scholar

Why The Well-Trained Mind Will Drive You Crazy! | The Classical Scholar — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:23:32 +0000

[...] The Well-Trained Mind (TWTM), by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer, was THE very first book that captured my attention when we began to consider giving our kids an education at home. I was smitten with the concept of classical home schooling right away! I loved the vision and conversational style that Jessie and Susan offered, but 8 years after trying to fully implement their suggestions, I am convinced that the “trivium” as they teach it is impossible to achieve. [...]