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

This now-classic guide to taking charge of your child's education is the number-one resource for parents and students who home-school or want to supplement. This revised edition gives access to a new supplemental website with additional resources, answers questions about home education and provides advice on practical matters.

About the author

Susan Wise Bauer is an educator and academic who has worked with parents and students for more than twenty years. She taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia for fifteen years. Her previous best-selling titles for Norton include 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 seriesJessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer’s mother, is a former teacher and principal; she is now an educational consultant, speaker, and writer.

Summary

A revised and updated edition of the perennial bestseller that sparked a home school movement.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Wise Bauer, Bauer Susan Wise, Jessie Wise, Wise Jessie
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2016
• EAN: 9780393253627
• ISBN: 978-0-393-25362-7
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 244 mm x 43 mm
• Weight: 1130 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Home Schooling, EDUCATION / Distance, Open & Online Education, Open learning, home learning, distance education, Open learning, distance education