by Harvey Bluedorn | Feb 5, 2023 | Articles for Beginners, Trivium Pursuit Sale
Delay & Re-posting, Product Prices, Trivium Pursuit Logo, This blog, Special Sales DELAY & RE-POSTING I am re-posting the (slightly updated) substance of this blog because the renovation of the website caused some problems with the blog so that the original...
by Trivium Pursuit | Mar 7, 2022 | Articles, Articles for Beginners
This is only a brief overview of our Suggested Course of Study. A more thorough discussion can be found in our Teaching the Trivium book, in our seminar tapes, and on our Homeschooling with the Trivium Email List. Early Knowledge Level Before age ten, the child is...
by Trivium Pursuit | Mar 7, 2022 | Articles, Articles for Beginners
We taught our oldest son to read 20 years ago, and since that time we have been doing all the schooling of our children at home. At that time, there were only a few thousand children being homeschooled in the United States. But today that number has swelled to perhaps...
by Trivium Pursuit | Mar 7, 2022 | Articles, Articles for Beginners
And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. (Romans 122) What is Classical Education? Is Classical Education reading Homer and Plato, or Caesar...
by Trivium Pursuit | Mar 7, 2022 | Articles, Articles for Beginners
The trivium model for child development may be explained in computer terms. Children are: • “Booting up” at the Pre-Grammar level (birth through ~9). • “Keying in” the information at the Grammar level (~10 through 12). • “Processing” at the Logic level (~13 through...
by Trivium Pursuit | Mar 7, 2022 | Articles, Articles for Beginners
When children reach the logic stage, homeschooling becomes interesting! Early teens are developing into thinking, questioning, reasoning creatures. They are no longer content to know what happened; they want to know why. To put this all in computer terms: children...