This is why we teach history, first of all, instead of modern social studies, and why we teach it with living books! From the Forward to Hendrik Willem Van Loon’s History with a Match: Being an Account of the Earliest Navigators and the Discovery of America: TO ALL GROWN-UPS: This little book is an historical […]
On teaching writing
“The practice of writing, that is, of composing, depends on previous reading, and example.” – Jacob Bryant, English historian and author | 1715-1804 From A New System, or an Analysis of Antient Mythology, Volume IV, p. 158. This is why we focus, in the elementary years, on a glut of reading, and copying, with spelling […]
