Some things work, and some things don’t. If you are trying to help a young person, or any person, get a truly great education, you’d better allow him—or, even better, help him—to fall in love with learning.
And you’d better help him learn how to be a [...]
C.P.: I am wanting very much to teach my five year old and 2 year old at home and feel lost:) I was never taught to teach and so where should I start? I haven’t trained my mind well enough to come up with my own teachings each day.
What [...]
by Oliver and Rachel DeMille
Some of the most important parts of Thomas Jefferson Education include:
I once read an article by two religious scholars who were very concerned about the qualified and credible scholarship of an individual with what they considered to be a competing religious worldview. It was intriguing to consider the controversy from the point of view of these intellectuals and the author [...]
As Leadership Education grows and TJEd spreads, we have gotten more and more of a certain type of question that we think deserves a more public response.
It seems that a number of people who read the TJEd books and articles or attend seminars resonate with the idea of getting [...]
Some American Indian tribes teach that when something in your life repeats itself three or four times, you need to pay attention. A few years ago one of my students called such a pattern a “theme unit”: a thought, idea or experience that presents itself repeatedly in different ways [...]
Once in a while a truly great book comes along that you just can’t wait to tell everyone else to read. Unschooling Rules by Clark Aldrich is that kind of book. I started reading in the afternoon and couldn’t put it down until I finished. My first thought when I [...]
We take on a pretty big project when we set out to home school our children. What is your guiding philosophy? What risks will you take? What habits will you break? Of course we can’t progress much if we are addicted to the mediocre, the pedestrian and the uninspiring—lessons too [...]
Every once in a while somebody asks why TJEd recommends lenient academics for children under age 12 and such rigorous standards for youth ages 12-18. This seems so different from the national system most of us experienced.
Sometimes our first instinct is to defend this point, to [...]
When we founded George Wythe College two decades ago, we had little concept of what the future would hold, and only a vague idea of what we wanted to be in that future.
We had ambitions to make [...]
