the well trained mind by susan wise bauer

I think she did an amazing job of making history readable for young children. I would be very hesitant to criticize the author of The Well Trained Mind and The Well Educated Mind based on a series that she deliberately wrote to be understood by less mature minds. Have you read The Well Trained Mind yet, for that matter? SOTW is not meant to be the final word on history, it is meant as an introduction for children. Have you read it? The breadth and depth of it is so much much greater than SOTW, which was written for children after all. I admit I was one of the people who thought SWB was a bit wack-o when she said Abram was a moon-god worshipper, and then - there it was plain as day as I was reading my Bible one day. Just had to laugh as last night I read a footnote in HOAW which Susan ended by saying (and I *loosely* quote): 'I'm including this here so that I don't get (even more) letters telling me I obviously haven't read my Bible.' I'd use a text intended for college freshmen, written by actual history professors who at least have a lot of research in that general time period, if not specialist on everything they cover. You average high school textbook, though is probably worse. SOTW is okay for kids, but with historical errors (including glaring ones) so very frequent, I wouldn't use a book by the same author for later in school. I wouldn't use it unless she's learned an order of magnitude more about history than when she wrote her STOW. Other Resources for Learning Challenges.Resources (and Curricula) for Processing Difficulties.Science Courses: Text/Online Support Packages.Apps, Learning Games, and Online Enrichment Activities.Getting Started: Beginning the Home Education Adventure.

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The well trained mind by susan wise bauer