We started out our home schooling journey by reading about
several approaches to homeschooling, including works by Charlotte Mason and Susan Wise Bauer’s The Well
Trained Mind. We developed our initial curriculum, inspired by the university education
we received at the Catholic University of Leuven as well as the best parts of
our pre-college education received in the US and Sweden respectively, based on
the classical approach to education. Our education is language based, interdisciplinary and systematic, with an emphasis on character and on great books; the study
of classical subjects, such as history, grammar, logic, Latin, Greek,
mathematics and science.
We believe that this specific approach to education will
enable our children to study and become most anything they desire. We believe
that the outcome of their classical education will be a solid knowledge base
and an effective tool for learning, research and expression. We also hope that
it enables them to become responsible and sensible citizens.
Sounds good, right? To me, as a homeschooling parent, it is
important to have a philosophy worked out, for inspiration, of sorts, or
perspective, so that when I realize that the toddler has rolled out an entire
pack of toilet paper rolls in the hallway while I was trying to teach my second
grader the phonetic sound ae without success, and it turns out the fourth
grader spent the entire hour hidden away with a video game somewhere instead of
doing his math, I know why I’m torturing myself I choose to home school.
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