Comments on: Who’s responsible?

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:19:39 +0000

Thanks again for your comments.

I have read Dumbing Us Down and agree it is excellent! (He is also an excellent speaker! If anyone has the chance to hear him speak – GO!)

I just checked Amazon & So – Why Do you Homeschool looks very good & I will probably order it & review it.

Teaching The Tivium also looks interesting, but for time & money reasons, will have to wait to personally check it out

Thanks again,
Sue

By: Schoolingathome

Schoolingathome — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:53:19 +0000

The only problem I have in answering your question is trying to narrow my answer down to just a few good books. There are so many good ones out there. Here are a few of my personal favorites.

Dumbing Us Down, by John Taylor Gatto
So – WHY Do You Homeschool?, by Mimi Davis
Teaching The Trivium, by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn

As far as reviews go there are already some good reviews of these books on Amazon.

Hope this helps.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:37:10 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to post your comment. I had not heard about any of this & sadly, very sadly, when I checked it out, you & your friend are right. My heart is grieved, as I’m sure God’s is, when any of his children fall, but especially when it’s a leader in the church. No matter who we are, we have to be so careful “lest, we too, fall.”

My personal opinion is that When You Rise Up is still a good and thought-provoking book and I hope that we don’t throw the “baby out with the bath water”, so to speak. However, I can’t argue with you, that because of what has happened, it probably isn’t the best book to give to someone you are trying to persuade to consider homeschooling. So sad.

You mention other books, would you, or anyone else for that matter, be willing share the titles, or better yet, write a review of some of the other good books that express reasons why parents should consider homeschooling?

Again, thanks for commenting!
Sue

By: Schoolingathome

Schoolingathome — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:27:09 +0000

I made the mistake of loaning When You Rise Up to a friend. I thought it was a good book, but my friend did a web search on R.C. Sproul Jr’s name and what a surprise that turned out to be! I didn’t know that he’d been defrocked, and he was defrocked over some pretty serious things. I won’t recommend his book again to anyone else. Too much risk of causing confusion with my friends that I’m trying to talk in to homeschooling. There are better books by people who haven’t been defrocked.