Great Books – November 2018 Newsletter

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As a pathological reader, your editor reads all sorts of things. I cannot, however, read things of substance while falling asleep at night. They keep me awake.
Lately, for nighttime literature, I am re-reading Louis L’Amour books that I first read 35 years ago. His heroes, especially his Sackett family, are remarkable.

 

Yet, I am comparatively illiterate compared to my colleagues. This weekend Matthew and Noah added shelves to one of our rooms. They favor fir lumber 2x12s for shelves. This morning their new shelves are now filled-with about 1,000 books.
Matthew now leads the work distributing our curriculum and advising families who use it. When this began, 25 years ago, Noah led the project, with Zachary, Arynne, Joshua, and Bethany all working to create it.
Zachary, the oldest, literally wore out Bibles and read whole sets of encyclopedias for fun -remembering in detail much of the text. Matthew is now the leader in this. Matthew literally inhales books -vast numbers of the best books in the English language.
On the CDs that transmit their curriculum (and cover all aspects of effective K-12 study), they put image files of the books they wanted to be sure the students read, to be printed on family printers. Later, they began making bound books and selling some of the titles.
Many favorable reviews were written when their curriculum was published, but a few responded by saying, “This is just books.”
And, so it was -books and a superb methodology with which to train a K-12 student’s mind in using them.

Read the complete free issue of Access to Energy here: Access to Energy – 11-2018 – Great Books