Education of the Mind: Going Beyond the Public School Curriculum (A Teaching Trilogy) (Volume 3) 1st edition

Modern public education has embraced the curriculum as the tool for certifying diplomas. Unfortunately, required classwork is merely the icing on a pedagogical cake, which remains not fully baked. For the foundation tools of deeper learning which help initiate, potentiate and give broader significance to studied information are not in the modern recipe. Without a more meaningful approach to scholarship than accumulating objective data, much of public school instruction remains methodologically questionable. This book is concerned with co-requisites of true education, the organizational tools and forms that shape genuine learning and remain available to be used when needed over a lifetime and after much curricular input has been lost from memory. These learning tools are being lost from public school practice despite having been venerated, some even from ancient times. These tried and true practices must be returned to the classroom. Students deserve to receive not only the curriculum but an education of the mind.