The Well-Trained Mind

What a dense and insightful book. I am truly sad that I did not read this book about 8 years ago when we were first struggling with disillusionment about the school system. The book walks you through twelve years of classical education, including detailed source material suggestions and schedules. It does not tell you how to test or how to go through the material, but that was never the intent of this book. A wonderful resource?

If you want exact instructions every step of the way and want to be told exactly which curricula to buy for every grade for a classical, Christian, education at home, then this is for you.

It's not for me.

I did save a lot of resource ideas, but definitely skimmed a large part of the book once I established this wasn't what I was looking for.

A great guide to giving your kid a classical education, but you've got to be willing to commit a LOT of time to doing it, otherwise it'll feel completely overwhelming. I love the idea, but in our case following it closely wasn't feasible.

Even though we're not using it as a curriculum, we still refer back to it often for age-appropriate resources on the classics.