{"id":15661,"date":"2013-06-05T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=15661"},"modified":"2013-06-04T21:16:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T01:16:10","slug":"the-best-book-on-classical-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2013\/06\/the-best-book-on-classical-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The best book on classical education?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

One of the best books I have ever read on classical education is the just-released title Simply Classical:\u00a0 A Beautiful Education for Any Child<\/a>\u00a0 (Memoria Press).\u00a0 It\u2019s by my friend and colleague on the board of the Consortium for Classical & Lutheran Education, Cheryl Swope.\u00a0 Classical education is best-known for its powerful academic chops, for its cultural richness, and for its compatibility with the Christian view of the world.\u00a0 But Cheryl\u2019s book chronicles what it did for her two special needs children, both with severe mental and emotional handicaps, whom she homeschooled with, yes, a classical education, complete with Latin, classical music, and great literature.\u00a0 This book not only gives an unusually lucid explanation of what classical education is and how to teach with it, whether in a school or at home, it reminds us of classical education\u2019s most important quality:\u00a0 how human<\/em> it is and how it connects with the humanness of its students, including those whose humanness is often overlooked.From the editorial description on Amazon:<\/p>\n

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This revolutionary new book guides parents and teachers in implementing the beauty of a classical education with special-needs and struggling students. Cheryl is an advocate of classical Christian education for special-needs students. The love of history, music, literature, and Latin instilled in her own children has created in Cheryl the desire to share the message that classical education offers benefits to any child.<\/p>\n

-Increase your child\u2019s academic success
\n-Restore your child\u2019s love of learning
\n-Regain confidence to teach any child
\n-Renew your vision of hope for your special-needs child
\n-Receive help navigating the daunting process of receiving a diagnosis
\n-Learn how to modify existing resources for your child\u2019s needs
\n-Find simple strategies any parent or teacher can implement immediately
\n-Appreciate a spiritual context for bringing truth, goodness, and beauty to any child<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What people are saying about it.\u00a0 (I wrote the Foreword.)<\/div>\n
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Rev. J. Bart Day<\/strong><\/div>\n
Executive Director of National Mission<\/strong><\/div>\n
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod<\/strong><\/div>\n